WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island’s cession to France by the Genoese. He was the fourth, and second surviving, child of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and his wife, Letizia Ramolino. His father’s family, of ancient Tuscan nobility, had emigrated to Corsica in the 16th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon was born on the island of Corsica, not long after its annexation by France, to a native family descending from minor Italian nobility.

Detailed explanation-3: -Napoleon founded the concept of “nobility of Empire” by an imperial decree on 1 March 1808. The purpose of this creation was to amalgamate the old nobility and the revolutionary middle-class in one peerage system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Napoleon created 3, 263 nobles between 1808 and 1814. Nearly 60 percent were military officers, while the remainder came from the upper ranks of the civil service and other state and local officials. Socially, only 22 percent of Napoleon’s aristocracy came from the nobility of the old regime.

Detailed explanation-5: -Napoleone Buonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, on 15 August 1769. He was the second of eight children born to Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer descended from Tuscan nobility, and his young wife Maria-Letizia Ramolino.