"1769 1821" Date of Birth- August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica.
Education- elementary education at a boys' school in Ajaccio, young Napoleon was sent in January 1779 with his older brother Joseph to the College of Autun in the duchy of Burgundy. In May of the same year he was transferred to the more fashionable College of Brienne. At Brienne, Napoleon received an excellent military and academic education, and in October 1784 he earned an appointment to the École Militaire of Paris. The royal military school of Paris was the finest in Europe in the years before the Revolution.
Experience- Napoleon entered the service of Louis XVI in 1785 with a formal education that had prepared him