Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte 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 …

…Napoleonic era. But his legacy is mixed. Napoleon promoted the growth of the modern state through his administrative and legal reforms, and his changes in the map of Europe inspired movements for national unification. However, his use of such ruthless police chiefs to suppress all opposition, if fairly gentle by 20th-century standards, set an threatening example. More or less, false sayings and stories about Napoléon, are as many as the books written about him.