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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,