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Napoleon Bonaparte: Father
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Napoleon Bonaparte was born August 15,1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica. He had 7 brothers and sisters. His parents were Carlo (Charles) Buonaparte (1746-1785) and Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte (1750-1836). His father was a lawyer.
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When in 1789 the National Assembly, which had convened to establish a constitutional monarchy, allowed Paoli to return to Corsica, Napoleon asked for leave and in September joined Paoli's group. But Paoli had no sympathy for the young man, whose father had deserted his cause and whom he considered to be a foreigner. Disappointed, Napoleon returned to France; and in April 1791 he was appointed first lieutenant to the 4th regiment of artillery, garrisoned at Valence. He at once joined the Jacobin club, a debating society initially favouring a constitutional monarchy, and soon became its president, making speeches against nobles, monks, and bishops. In September 1791 he got leave to go back to Corsica again for three months. Elected lieutenant colonel in the national guard, he soon fell out with Paoli, its commander in chief.
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In 1784 to 1785 Napoleon attended the Ecole Militaire in Paris. That was the place where he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery man and an officer. He finished his training and joined the French army when he was 16 years old! Soon after that his father died and he was left with the responsibility of taking care of the hugeBonaparte family. Napoleon was stationed in Paris in 1792. After the French monarchy was overthrown on August 10, 1792, Napoleon decided to make his move up in the ranks.
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Napoleon was educated at three schools: briefly at Autun, for five years at the military college of Brienne, and finally for one year at the military academy in Paris. It was during Napoleon's year in Paris that his father died of a stomach cancer in February 1785, leaving his family in straitened circumstances. Napoleon, although not the eldest son, assumed the position of head of the family before he was 16. In September he graduated from the military academy, ranking 42nd in a class of 58.
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Three weeks before his death, Napoleon was reported to have said, "I am neither an atheist nor a rationalist; I believe in God and am of the religion of my father. I was born a Catholic and will fulfill all the duties of that church."‡ Although the Catholic Encyclopedia gleefully reports that Napoleon asked for clerical ministration at the end, what the Encyclopedia does not report is the excuse he gave for calling on a priest as he lay dying. It was, as Napoleon said, because "there is so much that one does not know." From the Catholic point of view, this rationale is agnostic.
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