Mhave the 1768 king Louis XV
becomes owner of Corsica whom it paid two hundred and thousand books
with the republic of Genoa. After Lorraine, joined together with
the kingdom with died of king Stanislas in 1766, the acquisition of
"Corsica" was to be put in the active of the minister Choiseul, the
restorer of the marine. Since 1730, the island was in a
permanent state of instability. Its inhabitants indeed refused
to pay taxes in Génois. An army of five thousand volunteers had
risen in Castagniccia to go on Bastia which one had plundered the
stores. Three thousand famished Corsicans, rassernblés with the
sound of shells of triton called colombas, threatened Ajaccio.
Lbe notable asked for the helps of
Genoa against these rural revolts. However certain great
families, Tadei, Giafferi supported the rioters in the name of
Corsican patriotism. They asserted autonomy for the island and
the withdrawal of the administrators and Italian soldiers. Genoa
had obtained the help of the emperor Charles VI of Habsbourg, which
had intervened, exiling the patriots.
Mboard of others reconstituted tapes:
Giacinto Paoli and Ambrosi held the maquis. Giafferi, of
return in the island, had given itself the title of General of the
Corsicans, announcing the release of the fatherland. In 1738,
Genoa obtained the assistance of France and the regiments of the count
de Boissieux had obliged Paoli and Giafferi to be left for the exile
and had restored the command in Corsica. However resistance
always remained in the mountains. 1748, France sent a new
forwarding, at the request of Genoa, ordered by the marquis de Cursay
who acted already as a governor. In 1755, a patriot, during
fifteen years, returned to the country, became the god of
Castagniccia, the mountain dwellers of the north of Corsica.
Pasquale Pao1i was the son of Giacinto. It continued the
combat.
Eread general with
Saint-Antoine-of-Casabianca, it raises troops to form a true national
army, which it equips with dark cloth, with gaiters and bonnets of
black skin. The men are armed with stylet and gun, shotguns
whose blade was bleached in pure water of Restonica. Paoli
however had rivals Mario Emmanuele Matra, wire of a clan
dominating of Tightened and Cut down, which reigned in the area of
Corte, with the rank of General. It defended the notable
ones and not the shepherds. In the south, Antonio Colonna was
also hostile in Paoli: the Corsicans tore between them.
Paoli could not be the chief of a
kind of jacquerie. It sought in its turn the support of notable,
tried to resist the Franco-génois blockade. But the island
poor, was insulated. The currency with head of Moor whom
it had struck, melted with the metal of the bells and the chalices,
did not manage to be essential in the trade. Bad harvests
involved the famine. Even the sweet chestnuts missed.
Genoa believed then possible to send some troops, for the
reconquest. They were badly accepted. With what to make
the expenses of repression good, to constantly keep a populated island
of one hundred twenty thousand inhabitants rebel, exporting just oil,
wine, skins, honey and wax? The Corsicans all were armed.
They hid their rifles until in the churches, under the high
altar. The patriots were irreducible. Better was worth to
sell Corsica, thought the leaders of Genoa.
Lhas France then had a maritime
policy in the Mediterranean. It should launch two campaigns to
come to end from resistance from Paoli and of Jacques Casella, who
defended, only, the tower of Nonza, in the Cape In 1769, Corsica was
French. This year was born Napoleon Bonaparte to with it.
Greeting 
To rent in Corsican
Lbe notable asked for the helps of
Genoa against these rural revolts. However certain great
families, Tadei, Giafferi supported the rioters in the name of
Corsican patriotism. They asserted autonomy for the island and
the withdrawal of the administrators and Italian soldiers. Genoa
had obtained the help of the emperor Charles VI of Habsbourg, which
had intervened, exiling the patriots.
