History

One chose for the young boy (the second of the children) the first name of Napoleon, very little widespread in Corsica. Napoleon is hard high by his mother, “to Corsica”, will say it; she does not pass anything to him. In spite of that, Napoleon likes it tenderly. Around its cradle, then to direct its first steps, it is surrounded by female silhouettes, amongst other things its large mother, Maria Saveria Bonaparte, very lenient, very excessively pious woman, who likes it much. Dice its youth, Napoleon shows a character difficult, voluntary, sometimes inflexible. It is attracted by the military trade and wishes to have what the soldiers have that it sees ravelling in front of him in Ajaccio: cap and plumet, shoulder pads, sabre, rifle, bayonet.

Here it is at the school, held by chocolate éclairs. It is there studious, liking work, especially calculation. It is called “the Mathematician”. At the school of the Jesuits, it continues and, at eight years, it has such a passion for mathematics that one builds to him on the back of the house, a small room in boards, where it can be insulated to work. With the course held by the Recco Abbot, the pupils are divided into Romans and Carthaginians, and are placed in opposite from/to each other to stimulate energies. Napoleon, depity to be placed among the Carthaginians, obtains, through authorities, to be placed among the Romans, the winners.

In 1778, Charles Bonaparte places at the college of Autun, held by secular priests, Joseph, intended for priesthood, and Napoleon who will make a military career. The young boy is there pensive and very irritable, particularly on the subject of his small Fatherland.