| Content Description | Answers the request of the duke to be sent the best information that can be gathered about the Bonaparte family; reports that Carlo [Charles] and Letitia [Letizia] Bonaparte lived in Corsica and lists their sons which include Napoleon, and their daughters; discusses who might have fathered Napoleon; refers to the relationship between Letitia and Mons. de Marbeuf, (governor of the island of Corsica); refers to Carlo Bonaparte's role as a deputy to the nobility sent to the French throne; mentions the early careers of Napoleon and his family, noting where they were educated and their later places of work; fears that this short account of the family does not provide any new information for the duke. |