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the congregation shivered in the cold
no Dom echoed with the sounds of 400 musicians and singers
the young man born on the island of Corsica moved impatiently forward
boolean Bonaparte 35 years old was about to be crowned emperor of france
I found the crown of France in the gutter he said and I picked it up
it was December second 1804 within three years
Napoleon's conquest would extend his empire across almost all of Europe and
he would rule over 70 million people
not since the ancient Caesars at one man held so much power
the poly change the world
here is a man who rises not on the basis of his blood and all the basis of his
background broad basis of his ability
no one else has appeared like him and dominated the world like he has guess
school network
what is an opponent said you know MA it's a hand and a shirt
sit them to strange hassle so see who made this if you show the Hat
if you show the hand in the shirt in Japan the United States or friends
everybody will say the polling
he was above all I ambitious love power
he said I love power like a musician loves his music
Oh
Napoleon mounted the steps to the order alone
seizing the crown in his own hands
he held it aloft
then brought it to rest on his own head
that morning he had quietly told his brother
if only our Father could see us now
Oh
in the spring of 1760 nine
leticia and Carlo Bonaparte day
we're crossing the mountains that straddled the interior of the island of
Corsica they were Corsican Patriots determined to repel a French army that
had invaded their tiny island nation the positives but only about a hundred
120,000 people of peasant or Shepherd origin they had very few firearms very
little garlic powder and that was all they had to defend themselves against
the 22 million population of France than the most advanced country in Europe the
Corsicans never stood a chance
after a year of fighting leaving thousands dead and wounded
they were defeated and Leticia and Carlo we're going home
leticia was six months pregnant
that summer the TC it was celebrating the feast of the assumption when she
felt her first labor page
later that day
august fifteenth 1769
she gave birth to a son the bullion Napoleone a wanna party
born just after the bitter French conquest Napoleon would spend his
childhood hating France the nation
he would one day rule i was born when corsica was perishing Napoleon later
wrote 30,000 Frenchman spewed on to our shores drowning the throne of Liberty in
waves of blood cries of the dying
the drones of the oppressed and tears of despair surrounded my cradle from the
hour of my birth
corsica was now a French colony suspended in the Mediterranean between
france and italy for centuries Corsican said fiercely resisted invaders Romans
Wars Genoese after the French victory course it can rebels fled to the
mountains where they continue to fight on
but Napoleon's father Carlo a 23 year old university student readily submitted
so he was wearing a powdered wigs embroidered waistcoats and silver buckle
shoes
Napoleon never forgave him for betraying his Corsican heritage
he would later say harshly that his father was rather too fond of pleasure
suppose the polio and Napoleon always held a grudge against his father for
having submitted
he's having a party at the pendju but poor Harlem
he knew he had lost the basket he realized the French were there so we had
to live with them and make the best of it
Carlo began practicing law won election to the Corsican assembly and rose in the
esteem of the French rulers but Napoleon rarely had a good thing to say about him
he saved his praise for his mother
the beautiful strong willed
Leticia
as a mother he would say she was without equal
he was obsessed by how fascinated by her praised her normal sleep
she was very careful determined woman
13 * pregnant she had eight surviving children
he says that all his success in life is due to the training she gave him
Mary the mother of what a man
Polian said she has the head of a man on the body of a woman
Carlo and Leticia owned a house in the country as well as one in the city a
mark of their status they were Corsican aristocrats
but they were not rich with eight children they struggle just to get by on
an island that had been impoverished / centuries
there was nothing the ambitious couple believed that corsica could offer them
for their children only one country could the country that had vanquished
their own France
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as a representative of the Corsican Parliament Carlo traveled to Versailles
there he saw the splendor of the French Court in all its majesty
France was the envy of Europe great britain Austria Russia Spain
none had more people or greater wealth while America was just beginning its
experiment with democracy their side gave testimony to the power of Kings
Carlo was an awestruck provincial rumblings of discontent with king Louis
the sixteenth and aristocratic privilege or no concern of his that Queen Marie
Antoinette and a frivolous court for draining France of precious resources
did nothing to diminish Carlos to light in everything he saw
he dreamed that one day his children would become nobleman in that glittering
Citadel of power in which he had no place for years Carlo had nourished a
plan in Versailles he saw it come true
he secured Napoleon a scholarship to a school in France
Napoleon set foot in France for the first time in the winter of 1778 a thin
sallow nine-year-old accustomed to the warmth of the Mediterranean suddenly
alone on the windswept plains of northern France
a scholarship boy at the royal military college at sixtieth
chateau
he could hardly speak French
for the next five years there would be no holidays no visits home
he had no love of France he still thought of himself as a grudging subject
of an alien King he's the so-called even go to a thinks of himself as a course
again
he is surrounded by students who are the children of French aristocrat and they
have nothing in common with this little foreigner
look we get that net welfare and since he is quite proud in body becomes a
loner
that's easily estimate about Napoleon would one day turn his sympathies toward
France but not without years of resentment and struggle he was 15 when
he was promoted to the royal military academy in Paris
along with the sons of some of france's greatest families
he would learn the splendors of French civilization the Royal Academy was as
much a finishing school
turning officers in two gentlemen as a war college
we were magnificently fed and serve Bonaparte set treated in every way like
officers possessed of great wealth
but for Corsican teenager still felt like an outsider
it entered a world of opulence and luxury but it only served to fuel his
scorn for the privilege and snobbery of the French nobility
one teacher described him as quiet and solitary frightfully egotistical proud
ambitious aspiring to everything he would go far his school report read in
favorable circumstances
he began his apprenticeship as a soldier when he was 16
a lowly second lieutenant training with the best part of every unit in the
French army he grew expert is citing a gun and Link grammar and shot
deploying then one of the greatest careers military history had begun
insulting i could sit down
he feels that the regime will not let him have the position your dreams
ok we busted a superhero stories lv the top positions are reserved for the
nobleman blue do with Fanny Al Capone the Holy incomes from minor nobility and
before a party animal
you know glasspoole frustrated in his military ambitions Bonaparte dreamed of
becoming famous as an author wrote a brief history of Corsica even tried his
hand at a novel
he is a supporter soup he knows that he's capable of great things
the dead honest she feels that perhaps he's destined for greatness
but at that point how can he possibly believe it in so nuit happily he's Lord
hysteria
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always alone among men Bonaparte wrote
I come home to dream by myself and to give myself over to all the forces of my
melancholy
yeah
I thoughts dwell on death what fury drives me to wish for my own destruction
no doubt because I see no place for myself in this world
it was the revolution that was set Bonaparte free
july fourteenth 1789 Paris erupted
angry crowd
storm through the streets Ryan liberty equality
brother
France was thrown into turmoil the monarchy itself hard on the edge of
destruction
the defiant
national assembly challenge the absolute right of the King stripped nobles and 30
of their ancient feudal privileges fracturing a social order that has
endured for centuries
three years of injustice and inequality the revolution had begun
it would take years before it would end
as the revolution gain momentum Bonaparte was serving in the Army far
from Paris
he distrusted the violent mobs but welcomed the changes transforming the
country open look a felony but certainly not a revolutionary before the beginning
of the revolution me
but after actually very short but Bonaparte welcome to the revolution as
good news for ski
he almost has a religious impact for important because all of a sudden he
feels that the revolution is going to open up
french society not able to show that Leah associated forces level is shown in
a previous relationship professional associate differences know that through
good abolish privileges
yeah put it into hierarchies and the kind of condescension from which
Napoleon had suffered while he was growing up a pretty Los Angeles but
after - 10 part was a man of his time to be 20 years old in 1789 is very
important this is Napoleon is destiny and the destiny of the whole country
become the same
in the summer of 1792 Bonaparte was on leave in Paris and witness the last gasp
of the French monarchy
in June a mob stormed the tuile every palace and forced the King to wear the
red revolutionary body
yeah
in August the mob massacred the King Swiss Guard king Louis the sixteenth was
to throw
french republic was proclaimed that fault
nobody over that's why not Napoleon wants to be part of this new world
he wants to play a role where order now you come oh stop
and he starts in the place he knows very well could be if every year starts with
corsica don't come as particles
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Bonaparte was 23 an idealistic revolutionary when he took leave of
absence from the French army and return to Corsica
french republic had made corsica a part of France given four seconds all the
rights and liberties of French citizens
Bonaparte lieutenant in the islands national guard threw himself into
Corsican politics
pasquali polly was the islands governor
Polly had been Bonaparte's childhood hero
the leader of the Corsican war against France now
Bonaparte dreamed of rising to power standing by Polly's side but he would be
bitterly disappointed
Polly did not trust him a ragged sony in a spare toe probably called him a big
inexperienced boy
the Corsican Patriot that Bonaparte too ambitious too self-centered too
sympathetic to France Bonaparte and paoli are on totally different
wavelengths
paoli retains the idea that corsica's should be independent
by this time Napoleon Bonaparte is is is perfectly comfortable with a a Corsican
that is part of revolutionary France on apart soon became the leader of a
faction opposed to Polly clan rivalries
randeep on the island intensifying the political struggle between the two men
Holly's partisans and Bonaparte's were soon at war
yeah
in the end Polly proved too strong
Bonaparte's home was sacked he was forced to flee to the mountains the
course you can assembly declared Bonaparte and his entire family
traitors and enemies of the fatherland condemned to perpetual execration and
infamy
Bonaparte no longer had the right to live in Corsica he had been given a
death sentence by his own people
his idealism shaken Bonaparte wrote his brother among so many conflicting ideas
the honest man is confused and distressed since one must take sides one
might as well choose the side which is victorious
considering the alternative it is better to eat than be eaten the defeat in
Corsica the break with his hero Polly had toughened him made him shrewd and
turned him toward France about children from the time when there is this break
up with Paula Lee's Corsica
he is French he wants to be French he is French
on jun 10th 1793 he set sail for France with his widowed mother
three brothers and three sisters a refugee family carrying with them all
they owned in the world
24 years old he was banished from the land of his birth forever
yeah
Bonaparte return to France to find the French fighting among themselves
King had been executed between and thousands more followed him to the
guillotine
there were cities in revolt uprisings in the provinces
maximilien Robespierre was in charge now
yes dear moralizing leader suspended the constitution vowing to save the Republic
from his enemies at any cost
the revolution turned into the terror
torn by Civil War
France was also at war with almost all of Europe Austria Spain Russia and Great
Britain were bent on destroying the new French Republic while French radicals
promised to help all peoples rise against their rulers reinstated in the
army as an artillery captain Bonaparte was ordered to too long
the city of 28,000 on the southern coast that had rebelled against the Republic
throwing its port open to the English the British fleet defended the city from
the harbor
twenty-four-year-old Bonaparte thought he knew how to drive them out
he argued that if his soldiers could seize the heights commanding the harbor
they could bombard the fleet drive it away and the city would fall
it was a simple plan
but none of the generals would listen the general thing to do on were total in
confidence or a little worse
finally a fairly competent general showed up
listen to Napoleon's plans and said naturally
this would be Bonaparte's first great chance with the aristocratic officers
fleeing the country there was suddenly a vacuum an opportunity for rapid
promotion for soldiers who could prove themselves under fire
yeah
Bonaparte fought bravely leading his men in the assault on the fort guarding the
heights suffering a wound in the thigh from an enemy bayonet
ten ships went up in flames
the british lit
how long was recaptured and bonaparte promoted
in just three months it risen from Captain to bring in your general
the Republic continue to fight for its life still clashing with enemies beyond
its borders still in turmoil
with France in chaos threatened on all sides ropes the air showed no mercy in
his efforts to bring about unity and order liberty
he said cannot be secured unless criminals lose their heads
determined to make his voice heard
Bonaparte wrote a political track and supportive ropes Pierre the young
soldier hated the terror but he hated chaos even more but that Bonaparte is
really a man of order gloria for him
order has to serve ideals exactly the idea of roses the air it is necessary to
suspend liberties in the name of Liberty in order to save liberty to save the
Republic
it's necessary to suspend individual liberties in the summer of 1794 ropes
Pierre's government fell
now it was the turn of those who made the terror to die
including websphere ah
in the spring of 17 95 Bonaparte headed for Paris now a brigadier general he was
determined to rise still higher
brands had a new constitutional government the guillotine rides in the
street
the war still raging along the frontier all seem forgotten
Bonaparte frequented the salons where the women who dominated Paris society
held court the women here he wrote his brother are the center of importance
here alone of all places on earth
they appear to hold the reins of government but they wanted little to do
with him
he was just another ambitious young soldier
I can still picture him one noblewoman remembered he wore badly made dirty
boots and a nasty round hat pulled down over his eyes and overall sickly effect
was created by this thinness and his yellow complexion
Bonaparte seem to have come to a dead end
he was desperate for promotion but no one paid any attention
if this continues he wrote his brother
I shall end by not stepping aside when a carriage rushes past then political
turmoil
once again gave him his chance on october fifth 1795 crowds of Parisians
storm through the streets alongside National Guardsmen bent on restoring the
monarchy the rebellion threatened to topple the Republic
yeah
the government called on Bonaparte to repel the attack
there was much other choice actually when this rebellion broke
there are any competent generals in Paris is your Bonaparte
he's a man of conviction put him in
Boehner will not want to push it around
and you will use all his weapons nobody had early is can only Paris models
before
still shoot
related to leave can see the whites of their eyes
the enemy attacked us
Bonaparte rode his brother we killed a great many of them now
all is quiet
I could not be happier
three weeks later he was made a full general commander of the army of the
interior
he was 26
Bonaparte was now a man to be reckoned with
he was driving through paris in a fine carriage wearing new clothes
trenching himself in eau de cologne the unsophisticated general was no ladies
man but he had fallen in love
her name was Marie Joseph rose de Beaune everyone called her rose
Bonaparte called her Josephine she was a Creole aristocrat from the French colony
of Martinique the 32 year old widow with two small children
deep in debt trying to make her way in Paris alone
language with a nonchalant shading into indolence she was known as a woman of
refinement charm and grace
it was said that she even went to bed gracefully Bonaparte was dazzled buyer
I was naturally timid among women he said Madame de Beauharnais was the first
woman who gave me any degree of confidence
Joseph he was swamped by people a slight hit false woman she been married young
husband who died at the gr team
she had not there was a positive that helped her out and was well known she
had affairs with men in high French society
no one stood higher than Palmer ah the most powerful figure in the new
government
Josephine was his mistress a woman of influence in the most fashionable salons
in Paris Bonaparte saw her in a world of power
she was at the center of society she had all these connections
she was very much someone who could be useful to him and then I think he just
fell madly in love with her
Josephine lived in a little cottage set in a pleasant garden
some said it was bra who paid the rent but barratt was growing tired of her now
Bonaparte visited her there Josephine seemed amused by her new lover
although she knew how to please him she did not return his passion when
Bonaparte proposed marriage she hesitated
she wasn't attracted to him at all in fact she told a friend later that she
pro long time she had to overcome a feeling of repugnance he was so serious
and he had no sense of humor
he was skinny hair was kind of hanging and he was unkempt may shake the booty
bus as but she knows her beauty is vanishing already your teeth are bad
she's getting wrinkles so good up with your polling doesn't see what others see
it good and she see what
her looks fading and her debts mounting she needed a protector on march nine
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine to barne were married
a gold enamel medallion was the generals wedding gift to his bride on it were
inscribed the words to destiny
Oh Bonaparte was sent to the Italian Alps Josephine's former lover
Paul bra had helped win him an appointment as supreme commander of all
French forces in Italy his assignment was to challenge the Empire of Austria
and they're Italian allies
he had never commanded an army before young and untested
no one expected very much from him especially his own generals to remove
the lock tava can put the MU coolie
everyone makes fun of him before he gets there you need to see this little
general who perhaps shows his command to his wife calls from all do need the cell
phone
Oh allow you then he arrives and within a few moments the veterans who made fun
of him understand exactly
he is in charge of shift I don't know why one of his general said but the
little bastard scares me
Bonaparte's army was in no condition to win battles
it had been stagnating under incompetent commanders in the foothills of the Alps
for almost two years
soldiers he proclaimed you are naked and ill-fed no Fame shines upon you
I will lead you into the most fertile plains in the world rich provinces great
cities will lie in your power
you will find their honor glory and riches
he lives on really enthralled he's a terrific actor lee kappa blue is capable
of laughing smiling we push good moment suddenly is passion is inspiring fear
before and anger class on April second 1796 Bonaparte led his army forward
he was badly outnumbered 38,000 French soldiers face 38,000 Austrians and their
allies 25,000 piedmontese Bonaparte plan to isolate the Austrians from the
Piedmontese then conquer each separately
he would strike first at Piedmont
in just two weeks he 16 batters took thousands of prisoners
broke the back of Piedmont's army one piedmontese officer would later complain
they sent a young man who attacks right left and from the rear
it's an intolerable way of making war
on april twenty sixth piedmont surrendered Bonaparte demanded gold and
silver and paid his troops the first real money they had seen in years
soldiers he said we thank you
while Bonaparte let his soldiers into battle he never stopped thinking of
Josephine writing her letter after letter day after day
not a day goes by without my loving you
he wrote her
not a night without holding you in my arms I curse the glory and ambition
which keeps me from the soul of my life
whenever I am troubled as to how things will turn out
I put my hand to my heart we're throbs your likeness
I have but to look at it and my love just perfect happiness
Josephine would sometimes read his letters allowed to friends
Bonaparte she told them is so amusing
with piedmont defeated Bonaparte was now pursuing the Austrians
retreated to the east the wilderness by the 26 year old general and his new way
of making war in the 18th century there are nobles commanding on both sides of
that
I was sort of cold the Army's with maneuver and very often if one had the
other in check
that would be the end of there would be no fight
about him was on the way the first modern general
he did not accommodate those old codgers on the other side at all
he attacked me who he attacks every day he attacks when it snows he attacks at
night attacks when it's cold it's not the way the game is played
he sexually mean he looks for the enemy to fight sit and when they assume that
he's gonna start
he continued the next day he fights again it surprises me
as the Austrians fled their rear guard hope to slow Bonaparte down by making a
stand of the little italian town of lodi they fortified a narrow wooden bridge
with 14 cannon and three battalions and dared Bonaparte to cross it
the general ordered a simple frontal assault on the bridge
everything would depend on the courage of his men he had earned their
admiration with his rapid string of victories
now he would find out if he also had their faith
how did incitement to do something like that his charisma
I mean it got tremendous presence the point was a master at motivating his
soldiers
that we always goes a long way the more they win the harder they get to stop his
troops were pretty well hepped up they've been chasing Austrians now for
her weeks and they went forward
yeppa there are no tactics at all contact they took the troops coming so
enthusiastically and quickly
it surprises the enemy cynical yes a question of enthusiasts everyone throws
themselves into it is everyone risks death
yeah
with his men facing withering enemy fire
Bonaparte was in the thick of it he was actually out there laying in the count
which is a carpal job but he was always up there William
this is a man with absolute courage
he's wherever he needed if he's needed up with the very front to encourage
people he's there he called it takes physical risks
it could mention the blade even if cannonballs fall clothes store and this
happened on several occasions
he's not afraid the French made it halfway across the bridge and fell back
under a vicious hail of fire
then one last charge and they were across
yeah
the Austrian guns fell silent
here they thought they were safe behind the river hole in the bridge know what
the French come across the bridge and beat the living Jesus out
it's a real spectacular job it was the big battle the casualties were not
particularly heavy but he had impose his will on his own men on the anime both it
was not a great victory
the Austrian army had in fact escaped
but Bonaparte had won the respect and devotion of his men he came out all
sweaty and grimy and covered
Gunsmoke the troops like that that began calling them the little purple right
there
it was you identify with us
you're here are corporation
yeah
it does we'll all of this is the moment when he becomes convinced that he has a
lucky start
a good buddy Steve and that destiny has chosen him to accomplish great things
they haven't seen anything yet Bonaparte told one of his generals in our time
no one has the slightest conception of what is great
it is up to me give them an example
there was a spark
the battle at lodi convinced Napoleon Bonaparte that he was a man of destiny
from that moment he said I first saw what i might be already i felt the earth
flee from beneath me as if I were being carried into the sky
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