Napoleon Bonapart Biography childhood

I beat one, scratched the other, and everyone was afraid of me. Most of all I had to endure my brother Joseph from me. I beat him and bit. And they scolded him for this, as it happened even before he comes to himself from fear, I will already push my mother. My insidiousness benefited me, since otherwise my mother Letizia would have punished me for my fever, she would never have suffered my attacks!

Mother loved him, but the upbringing of him and her other children gave a rather harsh. They lived economically, but the family did not experience needs. The father was a man, apparently, kind and weak-edged. The true head of the family was Letizia, a firm, strict, hardworking woman in whose hands children were in education. Napoleon inherited the love of work and strict order in business from his mother.

The atmosphere of this island secluded from the whole world, with its rather wild population in the mountains and forests, more often, with clashes endless between clans, with tribal bloody feud, with a thoroughly hidden, but stubborn hostility to the aliens, was greatly affected by the young impressions of Little Napoleon. In the year, after great troubles, the father managed to take two older children - Joseph and Napoleon - to France and put them in Open's college, and in the spring of the same G.

Napoleon remained a sullen, closed boy in the Brienn Military School; He quickly and for a long time was annoyed, did not look closely against anyone, looked at everyone without respect, without affection and without sympathy, very confident, despite his little growth and young age. He was tried to offend, tease, find fault with his Corsican reprimand.

But a few fights, violently and not without success, although not without damage to the little Bonaparte, convinced his comrades of the insactions of such clashes. He studied excellently, perfectly studied the history of Greece and Rome. He was also fond of mathematics and geography.

The teachers of this provincial military school themselves were not very strong in the sciences taught by them, and Little Napoleon replenished his knowledge with reading. He read in this early period, and subsequently always a lot and very quickly. In the year, at the age of 15, he successfully graduated from the course and moved to the Paris military school, from where officers in the army were already produced.

There were primary teaching forces: enough to say that among the teachers were the famous mathematician Monge and the astronomer Laplace. Napoleon eagerly listened to lectures and read. There was something and who to learn from. But in the first academic year, he suffered the misfortune: he entered the Parisian school at the end of October, the family was left almost without funds.

At Napoleon’s older brother, Joseph, hope was bad: he was not capable and lazy. The sixteen -year -old Junker took care of his mother, brothers and sisters. After a one -year stay in the Paris Military School, he left on October 30. It was difficult for a young officer. He sent most of the salary to his mother, leave for yourself only the most meager food, not allowing yourself the slightest entertainment.

In the same house where he rented a room, a bugwood shop was placed, and Napoleon began to spend all his free time reading the books that the bukinistic gave him. He was alien to society, and his clothes were so inconsistent that he did not want and could not introduce any secular life. He read bored, with unheard of greed, filling his notebooks with notes and notes.

Most of all he was interested in books on military history, mathematics, geography, and description of travel. He read philosophers. It was at this time that he got acquainted with the classics of the educational literature of the age of the age. It is difficult to establish when exactly the first signs of that aversion to the ideologists of the revolutionary bourgeoisie and its philosophy appear in it, which is so characteristic of him.

In any case, the summer second lieutenant has not yet so much criticized as he studied. This is also a radical feature of his mind: to every book, as well as to any new person, he was approaching these initial years of his life with a greedy and impatient desire as soon as possible and as fully as possible to extract what he still does not know and that he can give the food of his own thought.

He read fiction and poems; He was fond of "the suffering of the young Werther" and some other things Goethe; I read Rasin, Cornel, Moliere, the then accumulated book of poems attributed to the medieval Scottish bard Ossian it was a skilled literary fake; From this reading, he again rushed to mathematical treatises, to the books of military content, especially to essays about artillery deeds.

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