Napoleon Bonaparte

The youth of Napoleon

His real name was Napoleone di Buonaparte. He is born on the island Corsica, in Ajaccio. His father, Carlo Maria Buonaparte, was Corsican a lawyer. In 1764, he married the mother of Napoleon, Maria Laetitia Ramolino. She has given birth to 13 children, but only 8 children survived. She has experienced the death of her 3 daughters and the death of Napoleon, because she died when she was old. She hated the wives of Napoleon so much that she didn’t even go to the crowning of Napoleon, when he became emperor. She died in 1836, in Rome. His parents went to the government of Corsica, as a result of which Napoleon could get a study grant in France. The French revolution had already started and Napoleon just enclosed himself to that. Then he left the military school of Paris. He was second lieutenant of the artillery in the revolutionary army. Later he became a captain. When he was 24 years old, Toulan was conquered under the guidance of Napoleon. He was appointed as brigade general.

Short version of Napoleon’s “career”

Napoléon Bonaparte, (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français) under the name Napoléon I (Napoléon 1er) from 18 May 1804 to 6 April 1814, and was briefly restored as Emperor from 20 March to 22 June 1815. He was also King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.

The cause of Napoleon’s death

The cause of Napoleon’s death has been disputed of occasions. Francesco Antommarchi, the physician chosen by Napoleon’s family and the leader of the post mortem examination, gave stomach cancer as a reason for Napoleon’s death on his death certificate. In the later half of the twentieth century, a different theory arose conjecturing that Napoleon was the victim of arsenic poisoning.

Napoleon have ensured many changes in Europe. A couple of them are:

• We drive at the right side in Europe, except in the United Kingdom.
• Half-measures were everywhere introduced the same, such as the meter and the litre. As a result, everyone would get each other in Europe if you were talking about a half-measure.
• People had to give up a surname, so that it was clear which `Jan´ or `Piet´ they meant.
• Most privileges of the church had been taken away and became right with the rights of the normal citizen.
• Many small states he has added to larger states.
• Better education and health care were regulated, so that each citizen could go there.

Love

Napoleon had several relationships and therefore had many children from other women than those he was married to. The first important woman in its life was Désirée Clary. He has been become engaged with that 2 years. Napoleon was in 1796 married with Joséphine the Beauharnais. He also adopted her two children. During his marriage with Joséphine he got 2 sons from other women. One son from a court lady and one son from a Polish gravin. Joséphine became the empress of the French, but she didn’t gave Napoleon children, so they divorced. To show that he was an emperor, he married in 1810 with Marie Louise of Austria. She was also crowned to an empress and they together got a zoon; Napoleon II French Karel Jozef. He was the king of Rome and became later the duke of Reichstadt.