Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte (or Napoléone in French) was born on the 15th of August 1769 in Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, just three months after it had been defeated by the French. He was the second child of eight children of Carlo (Charles) and Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte (or Buonaparte), both of Corsican-Italian gentry. Through his father’s influence, Napoléon was educated at the expense of King Louis XVI, at Brienne and the École Militaire, in Paris. Napoléon sat foot in France for the first time in the winter of 1778, a thin, washed-out nine year-old, used to the warmth of the Mediterranean. He was barely able to speak French. At the age of fifteen, Napoléon was promoted to the Royal Military Academy in Paris. At sixteen, he began his apprenticeship as a lowly second lieutenant, training with the best artillery in the French army. His ambitions soared way beyond a military career, but in French society- power and achievement was reserved for the nobility, and not for an unsophisticated Corsican soldier.After the outbreak of the French Revolution he attempted to join the Corsican patriots led by Pasquale Paoli, but his family was believed to be pro-French. His family was condemned for its
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