Page 3 - HP2A 012 Napoleon Bonaparte
P. 3

serving with the French military.



             Because of  these noble backgrounds,




             Napoleon was able to acquire better



             education opportunities than that



             of  the average Corsican at the




             time, which was considered to be



             rather poor than their mainland



             counterparts. He attended a Catholic                                                                                        a French province in the year 1770.




             school at Autun in France in January,                                                                                       Napoleon’s father was an attorney



             1779 when he was 9 years old.                                                                                               that  represented  the  Corsican




             During his childhood years, the                                                                                             province at Louis XVI’s court in the



             Republic of  Genoa, which was a                                                                                             year 1777. After a few months in the




             part of  Italy at the time, transferred                                                                                     religious school, he was transferred



             Corsica to France, and was added as                                                                                         to a military academy. In his youth,
   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8