![]() In 1774, aged five years old, Napoleon entered the primary boarding school run by Beguine lay sisters in Ajaccio, as a day-boy. Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769 and baptised on 21 July 1771. Charles Bonaparte was elected to the Corsican Estates General as representative for the nobility in the province of Ajaccio, in 17 and then again in 1777. In September 1771, the Bonaparte family’s noble status was officially recognised, (a fact that allowed Napoleon Bonaparte to go to the military secondary school or “collège” at Brienne on – four degrees of nobility were the required measure). Of the Bonapartes’ twelve children, only eight would survive, namely, Joseph (1768), Napoleon (1769), Lucien (1775), Marie-Anne known as Elisa (1777), Louis (1778), Marie-Paulette known as Pauline (1780), Marie-Annonciade known as Caroline (1782) and Jerome (1784). Charles Bonaparte (1746-1785) married Letizia Ramolino (1750-1836) on 1 June 1764, the dotal act having been signed on 13 May. ![]() Amongst Paoli’s partisans figured Charles Bonaparte, Napoleon’s father. After a year of troubles, French troops subdued Paoli’s men at Ponte Nuovo on. In 1768, Corsica officially became French (after being Genoese) via the treaty of Versailles dated.
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