From the truth about his height to his unknown romance novel…stay tuned to number 1 to find out 10 incredible things you didn’t know about Napoleon! This top 10 brought to you by Zero2Hero!! Don't forget to subscribe here! https://goo.gl/NXuChu Click here to see these INSANE...But TRUE Government Experiments!! https://youtu.be/hd-PszqthsQ Number 10: Early Life. While many of our great historical figures were helped to their status by their high-profile ancestry, Napoleon was born to a modest Italian family on the 15th of August, 1759. He was born to parents Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino, and descended from minor Italian nobility of Tuscan. Although he came from a fairly modest family, his noble, yet moderately affluent background enabled him to have greater educational opportunities than were available to others from his area. What you might not know is that Napoleon wasn’t the first child of Maria and Carlo to bore the name Napoleon. His parents had a child some years before and named this child Napoleon, but the child died in infancy. In all, he was their third son, and the second to survive to adulthood, and he also had six younger siblings. Although he is famous from his involvement in the French Revolution, during his younger years he was an outspoken Corsican nationalist longing to see his homeland overthrow the French rule. Number 9: Language and Writing Skills. Due to his heritage, Napoleon spoke and read Corsican as his mother tongue, Italian as the official language of Corsica, and it wasn’t until he was 10 years old that he started learning French at school. As he became fluent in French, though, he couldn’t shake his Corsican accent and was apparently teased about this while he was at military school in France. Nevertheless, he later regarded French as his first language – which is rather ironic as he apparently never mastered French spelling. But it wasn’t only these abilities, or lack of abilities, that have been remembered through history. Napoleon is also known to have had VERY bad handwriting. Count de Las Cases, a companion of Napoleon on St Helena – the island he was exiled to by the British – noted that he left a ‘great deal for his copyist to do’, and that he often couldn’t decipher his own writing. Cases stated Napoleon’s handwriting ‘actually formed hieroglyphics’ so it’s no surprise he or his copyist couldn’t decipher it. Napoleon himself even acknowledged his poor handwriting, telling Dr. O’Meara that he’d previously had a habit of writing only half or three quarters of the word, and even ran some of them in to one-another, which meant that only those who were accustomed to his manner of writing who could understand this. Yet, he does also state that his writing did improve during his time on St Helena – something that he attributes to not being so hurried as he was in previous circumstances. Number 8 Napoleon’s Romance Novel. He was a revolutionary, a military general, an emperor – and a novelist! Yes, that’s right, the great Napoleon wrote a romantic novel called Clisson et Eugénie at the age of 26. But before we get into the details of this gripping novel…take a moment to subscribe to our channel and like this video! You know you want to! The inspiration for Napoleon’s novel is the young soldiers’ love affair with Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary, whose sister married his brother Joseph. The story was written before his marriage to Joséphine, and before he made his name for himself by stopping a royalist coup in Paris in 1795. Unsurprisingly, the novel was never published and only came to light after his death when his possessions were scattered as souvenirs. Thankfully, the scattered pieces have since been copied and merged back together and were first published in French in 2008, and translated and published in English in 2009. So, if you want to read a romance novel by a famous military leader, you can buy yourself a copy on Amazon. Number 7: Napoleon’s Height. Perhaps one the biggest myths about Napoleon is that he was short. This myth prevailed in to the 20th century where his name was given to the psychological complex specific to short men. The Napoleon complex’, also known as ‘short man syndrome’, has to deal with a feeling of inadequacy which can come from a lack of height – or a perceived lack of height. So, how did this rumor start? Well, it’s likely thanks to the English propaganda, which depicted the general as comically short in critical cartoons during the Napoleonic Wars. Ironically, this rumor was further confirmed by a height measurement taking at the time of his death by a physician who noted a height of five-foot-two, however this was a French measurement and apparently equals five-foot-six, a height which many historians state was normal for the era.
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