NAPOLEONE E HIS/HER FAMILY

In the XVI sec., some Bonapartes would have left Sarzana, in the Alps Apuane next to You Spezia, to settle to Ajaccio, also it to that time under the Genoese dominion. Charles Maria, the father of Napoleone, had gotten married to 18 Letitia Ramolino, of 14 years. The mother of Letitia, remained widow, him risposò with an officer of the Genoese harbor, Francis Fesch, from which you/he/she had a child, Joseph, the cardinal future Fesch (1763-1839). In 1768, Charles Maria fights beside Pasquale Paoli against French for the independence of the island and his/her wife it follows him/it in all the consignments. A few months after the battle of New Bridge the their is born according to child Napoleone. According to a very rooted tradition, but not verifiable, August 15 th 1769, just begun the solemn office of the assumption in the cathedral of Ajaccio, Letitia Bonaparte, helped by his/her/their sister-in-law, you/he/she must make return to house in all hurry. The young woman doesn't even succeed in reaching his/her own room. He who felt to get excited inside of itself, to the time when it ran away from French on the slopes of the Round Mountain, it comes to the light on the couch of the antechamber to the 1° floor. In memory of a relative of Letitia died a few months before, his/her child is called Napoleone, but soon this a little common name is replaced by the diminutive of "Nabulio" (Snoop).

The life in House Buonaparte.
The Bonapartes divide with their cousins Well of Suburb a great house from the very simple outside, situated in rue Weed. Letitia handles with rigor the good course of the house dealing himself/herself/itself with his/her/their children and entertaining relatives of passage; this "rare woman", constantly pregnant, "everything managed and everything administered, with a wisdom and a sagacity that it was not waited us neither from his/her sex neither from his/her age ". The education of his/her/their children was not left to the case. The tenderness of his/her/their mother was severe and the young Nabulio often had to bear his/her correct reproaches. Later the emperor he/she confessed: "I was a wrangler, a little devil, nothing aroused me subjection. I was not afraid of anybody, I now beat the one, I now scratched the other. I made me fear from all." Joseph was the first one to suffer orders and shoves from this young rebel that you/he/she already tried to practice to the career of soldier. Napoleone was student of the nuns and, subsequently, of the abbot Recco; it learned French and, if it showed scarce attitude for the religious teaching, it surprised instead for his/her ability in to resolve the problems of mathematics. His/her father, Charles Maria, was named in the 1771 alderman of the real Judge of Ajaccio: nevertheless, neither the thin consequential salary from such position neither the few profits of the earths of family allowed this man spender and to its family to live in the comfort. Soon he asked for the scholarships for his/her two great children, after having shown the nobility and the state of indigence of the family. It was so that, in 1779, Napoleone, to the 9 year-old age, the military school of Brienne (around 200 East km in Paris) was admitted to.
To Brienne, Napoleone feels to reawaken in itself his/her own raced patriotism and starts to feed admiration for the general Paul. In 1784 it enters to the military school in Paris, of which it goes out as lieutenant of artillery to the 16 year-old age; it doesn't have too much ambitious projects: to return in the Corsica to devote to the political career and to serve in the military and to write a history of the island. Since 1789, to the 20 year-old age, it sticks to the ideal of the Revolution.
The law of February 3 rd 1792 authorized the French officers to enlist only in the regiments of the Watches national runs to condition that you/they had been chosen lieutenants colonels. This way Napoleone Bonaparte, to that time in license in the Corsica and desirous to follow from near the events that unwound you, as lieutenant colonel ran him in second, behind Giovan Baptist Quenza, near the 2° battalion of the Volunteers raced of Ajaccio-Tallano. Both were chosen April 1° th 1792, in spite of Paul intrigues. Eight days later it took place to Ajaccio, on the occasion of a competition of ninepins, a brawl that degenerated in revolt. Among the Volunteers raced of the national Watches and the citizens a shoot-out it bursted, in which found the death a lieutenant of the 2° battalion. To the next day, the battalion Quenza-Bonaparte opened the fire on the believers that went out of the cathedral killing different people. This violence instigated 8 days of civil war, for which the population put aside grudge for long time to the future emperor. Besides, Bonaparte had seen just to fail his/her project to conquer the citadel: the colonel Maillard, that was the commander of it, summoned him to surrender and he owed depart from Ajaccio. The following year the city, by now conquered to the ideas of Paul, not bearing that Luciano, brother of Napoleone, had thrown suspicions on the behavior of the "Father of the country" after the failure of the consignment in Sardinia, you/he/she turned him against the Bonapartes, that displayed his/her own fidelity to the Convention and they ran away abandoning the house and the good. Letitia and his/her daughters succeeded in reaching the Milellis, while Napoleone departed for Bastia. Soon the insurrection extended him to the whole island: the House Buonaparte of Ajaccio was ransacked, but persuaded Napoleone the commissioners of the Republic of the necessity to regain the city and a French fleet it threw he/she anchors him in the roadstead. Himself occupied with 50 men the tower of Capital to attach the city from earth, while the fleet bombed her/it, but the tower was surrounded of siege and the operation it failed. Napoleone, nevertheless, succeeded in reaching the fleet and two months later it was rejoined with his, arrived to the tower by the Milellis; from here, they reached Bald, on June 3, therefore Tolone. Napoleone would have seen only Corsica to his/her return from Egypt again. And' only in France, however, that has beginning the lightening career of Napoleone. Captain of artillery, he distinguishes to Tolone in 1793, then, as general of brigade, in the 1796 Italy country and in the consignment in Egypt (1798-1799); after the coup d'état of the 18 Brumaio year VIII (1799) becomes Primo Console, then Consul to life. In less than 5 years the Consulate allows him to centralize the power to advantage of his/her own ambition. Proclaimed emperor of French May 18 th 1804, Notre-dames you/he/she is crowned to December 2 to the 35 year-old age. In 1807 Europe dominates.

The House of Napoleone to Ajaccio and the Museum