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Napoleon I biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Emperor Napoleon I

Author Name:

Emperor Napoleon I

Born As:

Napoleone di Buonaparte

Other Names:

Emperor Napoleon I

Born:

15 Aug 1769

Died:

5 May 1821




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Military and political leader                          
                          
Mother Maria Letizia Ramolino
Father Carlo Buonaparte, eight children, Joseph, Napoleon,
Lucien, Elisa, Louis, Pauline, Caroline and Jerome.


Joséphine de Beauharnais - 1796. He formally adopted her son Eugène and cousin Stéphanie after assuming the throne to arrange "dynastic" marriages for them. He had her daughter Hortense marry his brother, Louis. Napoleon and Joséphine's marriage was unconventional, and both were known to have many affairs. Joséphine agreed to divorce so he could remarry in the hopes of producing an heir. 

Marie Louise - 1810 by proxy to Archduchess of Austria, then in a ceremony on 1 April. They remained married until his death, although she did not join him in his exile.- one son, Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles - 20 March 1811 – 22 July 1832, King of Rome. Known as Napoleon II though he reigned in name only for  two weeks. Was later known as the Duke of Reichstadt. He had no issue.

Acknowledged two illegitimate children, both of whom had issue:
Charles, Count Léon - 1806 – 1881, by Louise Catherine Eléonore Denuelle de la Plaigne.
Alexandre Joseph Colonna, Count Walewski - 1810 – 1868, by Marie, Countess Walewsk.

May have had further illegitimate offspring:
Émilie Louise Marie Françoise Joséphine Pellapra, by Françoise-Marie LeRoy.
Karl Eugin von Mühlfeld, by Victoria Kraus.
Hélène Napoleone Bonaparte, by Countess Montholon.
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire whose mother remains unknown.
                          
During the French Revolution, the ruler of France as Premier Consul of the French Republic, Empereur des Français, King of Italy, Mediator of the Swiss Confederation and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.                          
On 15 May 1779, at age nine, Napoleon was admitted to a French military school at Brienne-le-Château, a small town near Troyes. He had to learn French before entering the school, but he spoke with a marked Italian accent throughout his life and never learned to spell properly.