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The congregation shivered in the cold the room echoed with the sounds of 400 musicians and singers.
The young man born on the island of Corsica moved impatiently forward, Napoleon Bonaparte 35 years old was about to be crowned Emperor of France.
“I found the crown of France in the gutter, he said and I picked it up.”
It was December 2nd 1804 within three years Napoleon’s conquest would extend his empire across almost all of Europe. He would rule over 70 million people, not since the ancient Caesars at one man held so much power.
Napoleon changed the world, here is a man who rises not on the basis of his blood and on the basis of his background broad basis of his ability.
No one else had appeared like him before and dominated the world like he had.
He was above all ambitious he loved power, he said “I love power like a musician loves his music.”
Napoleon mounted the steps to the altar alone seizing the crown in his own hands.
He held it aloft then brought it to rest on his own head that morning he had quietly told his brother if only our father could see us now. In the spring of 1769, Leticia and Carlo Bonaparte they were crossing the mountains that straddled the interior of the island of Corsica. They were Corsican Patriots determined to repel a French army that had invaded their tiny island nation.
The cozy homes were only about a 120,000 people of peasant or Shepherd origin. They had very few firearms very little gunpowder and that was all they had to defend themselves against the French 22 million population. The French then the most advanced country in Europe the Corsicans never stood a chance after a year of fighting leaving thousands dead and wounded they were defeated. Leticia and Carlo were going home Leticia was six months pregnant, that summer Leticia was celebrating the Feast of the Assumption when she felt her first labor pains. Later that day August 15 1769 she gave birth to a son Napoleon Bonaparte.