PAOLI, Clemens, the elder brother of the preceding, was born in 1715, and, like the rest of his family, began at an early age to take an active part in the struggles of his country. His character was that of a saintly hero of the old Hebrew type,—fervent in prayer and mighty in battle. Although he was one of the Corsican generals, and although he might have held a high office in the government of his brother, he preferred to assume the garb of a monk and the uniform of a common soldier. To fight and to pray became the sole desires of his heart. At the sound of the coming battle he rose from his knees to rush into the field; in the thick of the conflict he fought like a lion, grimly muttering prayers for the souls whom he sent in rapid succession into another world; and when his bloody work was done, he returned to his cell with a pious countenance to resume his interrupted devotions. Thus did this praying soldier in the wars of the Corsicans become the champion of the national cause, the chief hero in an army of heroes. It was he who drove the Genoese from the district of Orezza; who carried San Pellegrino and San Fiorenzo; who kept Furrani for fifty-six days, until the village became a heap of ashes around him; who routed the disciplined troops of France at the famous battle of Borgo. Nor, after his country's independence had been lost on the fatal day of Ponte Nuovo, did his holy valor suffer abatement. Retiring to a solitary cloister near "the brooks of Vallombrosa," he continued for twenty years to pray and wait for the hour when he might draw his sword once more in Corsica's behalf. He had returned to the island an aged man, yet anxious to play a part in the restoration of national freedom, when he died in 1793 in the convent of his native Rostino. (Wanderings in Corsica, translated from the German of Gregorovius by Alexander Muir, in 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1855; and Boswell's Account of Corsica.)