On July 14 1789 Paris erupted. Angry crowd storms to the streets crying equality, liberty, and brotherhood. France was thrown into turmoil. The monarchy itself shuttered into the edge of destruction. The defiant absolute assembly changed the right of the king. Stripped nobles and clergy of their ancient privileges fracturing the social order that endured for centuries. After years of injustice and inequality the revolution had began it would take years before it could end. As the revolution gained momentum Bonaparte was serving in the army far from Paris. He distrusted the violent Mob, but welcome the changes forming the country.
He is certainly not a revolutionary for the beginning of the revolution. But Bonaparte welcomes the revolution as good news, it has almost a religious impact for him because all of the sudden he thinks the revolution will open French society. It abolished privileges, it put the hierarchy in condensation in which Napoleon suffered while he was growing up. Bonaparte is the man of his time, being a 20 years old on 1789 is very important. Napoleon destiny and the destiny of the whole country became the same.
In the summer of 1792 Bonaparte was on leave in Paris. He witness the last grasp of French monarchy. In June the Mob stormed the palace and forced the king to wear the red revolutionary bond. In august the Mob massacred all the kings Swiss guard, king Louie the XVI was dethrone. The French republic was proclaimed that fall. Napoleon wants to be part to this new world, he wants to play a role and he will starts where the place he knows very well..... Corsica.
Bonaparte was 23 an idealistic revolutionary, he took leave of absence on the French army and turn to Corsica. The French republic makes Corsica apart from France and given Corsicans the right and liberty of France citizens. Bonaparte a lieutenant of the island national guard threw him self into Corsican politics.
Pasquale Paoli is the islands governor, Pauli is Bonaparte childhood hero. The leader of the Corsican war against France. Now Bonaparte dreamed of rising to power standing on Paoli's side. But he bitterly disappointed, Paoli did not trust him. "A big inexperience boy".... Paoli called him. The Corsican patriot called Bonaparte too ambitious, too self centered, too sympathetic to France.
Bonaparte and Paoli are on totally different wavelengths. Paoli retains the idea that Corsica should be independent. By this time Napoleon Bonaparte is perfectly comfortable with Corsica that is part of revolutionary France. Bonaparte soon became the leader of a faction opposed to Paoli. Clan rivalry run deep in the islands which intensifies the political struggle between the two men. Paoli's partisan and Bonaparte were soon at war, in the end Paoli proved too strong. Bonaparte home was sacked he was forced to flee to the mountains. The Corsican Assembly declared Bonaparte and his entire family "traitors and enemies of the Fatherland, condemned to perpetual execration and infamy." Bonaparte no longer had the right to live in Corsica. He had been given a death sentence by his own people....click here to continue
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