{"product_id":"2940015715422","title":"The History of Napoleon Buonaparte","description":"LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Birth and Parentage of Napoleon Buonaparte--His Education at\u003cbr\u003e     Brienne and at Paris--His Character at this Period--His Political\u003cbr\u003e     Predilections--He enters the Army as Second Lieutenant of\u003cbr\u003e     Artillery--His First Military Service in Corsica in 1793.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNapoleon Buonaparte was born at Ajaccio on the 15th of August, 1769. The\u003cbr\u003efamily had been of some distinction, during the middle ages, in Italy;\u003cbr\u003ewhence his branch of it removed to Corsica, in the troubled times of the\u003cbr\u003eGuelphs and Gibellines. They were always considered as belonging to the\u003cbr\u003egentry of the island. Charles, the father of Napoleon, an advocate of\u003cbr\u003econsiderable reputation, married his mother, Letitia Ramolini, a young\u003cbr\u003ewoman eminent for beauty and for strength of mind, during the civil\u003cbr\u003ewar--when the Corsicans, under Paoli, were struggling to avoid the\u003cbr\u003edomination of the French. The advocate had espoused the popular side in\u003cbr\u003ethat contest, and his lovely and high-spirited wife used to attend him\u003cbr\u003ethrough the toils and dangers of his mountain campaigns. Upon the\u003cbr\u003etermination of the war, he would have exiled himself along with Paoli;\u003cbr\u003ebut his relations dissuaded him from this step, and he was afterwards\u003cbr\u003ereconciled to the conquering party, and protected and patronised by the\u003cbr\u003eFrench governor of Corsica, the Count de Marbœuff.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is said that Letitia had attended mass on the morning of the 15th of\u003cbr\u003eAugust; and, being seized suddenly on her return, gave birth to the\u003cbr\u003efuture hero of his age, on a temporary couch covered with tapestry,\u003cbr\u003erepresenting the heroes of the Iliad. He was her second child. Joseph,\u003cbr\u003eafterwards King of Spain, was older than he: he had three younger\u003cbr\u003ebrothers, Lucien, Louis, and Jerome; and three sisters, Eliza, Caroline,\u003cbr\u003eand Pauline. These grew up. Five others must have died in infancy; for\u003cbr\u003ewe are told that Letitia had given birth to thirteen children, when at\u003cbr\u003ethe age of thirty she became a widow.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146358046960,"sku":"2940015715422","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015715422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}