Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte:

Napoleone Buonaparte played so many roles at the european history: One of the greatest military commanders and a risk taking gambler; a workaholic genius and an impatient short term planner; a misogynist who could enthrall men; Napoleon Bonaparte was all of these and more, the twice-emperor of France whose military endeavors and sheer personality dominated Europe in person for a decade, and in thought for a century.
He was born in Ajaccio, Corsica on August 15th 1769 to Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer and political opportunist, and his wife, Marie-Letizia. The Buonaparte's were a wealthy family from the Corsican nobility, although when compared to the great aristocracies of France Napoleon's kin were poor and pretentious. Spurred on by his father's death in February 1785, the future emperor had completed in one year a course that often took three.