Young Napoleon: Teenage Revolutionary (TRIH ep 382, part 1)
1769 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, examines the origins and youth of Napoleon Bonaparte. The hosts situate Napoleon in 18th-century Corsica — its Ligurian dialect, Genoese rule, Pasquale Paoli’s nationalism, and the 1768 transfer to France — and outline his family background (Carlo Maria Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino).
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