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...Corsican, he had been sent to France to a military school because his parents were too poor to keep him at home. He brooded?shy, taciturn, lonely???while scions of the frivolous French nobility laughed at him. He wrote absurd fiction; he contemplated suicide. "Everything goes awry," said he to his diary. Then a long-smoldering idea flared up in his mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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