Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon I was born in 1769 and lived until 1821. He was a French emperor, and, being one of the greatest military leaders of all time, subjugated a very large part of Europe and modernized the nations he ruled. Napoleon was born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica, and was originally named Napoleone (in French his name became Napoleon Bonaparte). He was the second of eight children of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte. No Buonaparte …showed first 75 words of 1466 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1466 total…preserved the achievements of the Revolution in France and offered their benefits to Europe. His goal, he said, was to found a European state—a "federation of free peoples." Whatever the truth of this, he became the arch-hero of the French and a martyr to the world. In 1840 his remains were returned to Paris at the request of King Louis-Philippe and locked in with great splendor and ceremony in the Invalides, where they still lie.