Napoléon Death Anniversary: Lesser-known Facts About the French Emperor

Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica, a big island beside the coast of Italy which was declared as a French province. The emperor in his teens went to the renowned Ecole Militaire in the city of Paris and had to suspend his studies in between to support his family financially after the death of his father. He was a Corsican nationalist Although Napoleon is associated with the first French empire, he at his young age aimed to free his motherland from the French occupation. His parents had resisted French occupation before his birth and the emperor also termed the French as monsters and enemies of free men, when he was young. Josephine De Beauharnais, his first wife scarcely escaped execution Born in Martinique, Joséphine married Alexandre de Beauharnais at the age of 16 and entered the French royalty.