Notes and Queries, Number 178, March 26, 1853 / A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
In a work entitled Littérature Française Contemporaine , vol. ii. p. 268., there is a notice of the Bonaparte family, in their connexion with literature, in which it is stated that Napoleon, at the age of thirteen, wrote the following fable:—
Le Chien, le Lapin, et le Chasseur.
César, chien d'arrêt renommé,
Mais trop enflé de son mérite,
Tenait arrêté dans son gîte
Un malheureux lapin de peur inanimé.
—Rends-toi, lui cria-t-il, d'une voix de tonnerre,
Qui fit au loin trembler les peuplades des bois:
Je suis César, connu par ses exploits,
Et dont le nom remplit toute la terre.
A ce grand nom, Jeannot lapin,
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