![]() Napoleon was originally a Corsican nationalist. ![]() At 16 years old, Napoleon became an officer in the French army. He did, however, earn the distinction of being the first Corsican to graduate from the École Militaire. Cutting his studies short caused Napoleon’s grades to suffer and he ended up graduating 42nd in a class of 58 students. ![]() As a teen, he attended the prestigious École Militaire in Paris, but when his father died in his first year there, the younger Bonaparte (whose name was actually Napoleone di Buonaparte before he changed it as a young adult to sound more French) was forced to graduate early to help his family financially. His parents were well off enough to send him to school in France, although he never lost his Corsican accent and claimed to have been teased for it throughout his life. Napoleon was born into a family of minor nobility on Corsica-a large island off the coast of Italy-in 1769, a year after it became a French territory. ![]()
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