The Rise and Fall of the Emperor Who Threatened Regency England | Napoleon | History for Sleep

Before he was an emperor, before he was a legend, he was a boy on a granite island who could not yet speak French. This is the full life of Napoleon Bonaparte - from his birth in Ajaccio, Corsica in 1769, through his years as a young artillery officer, his rise to First Consul and then Emperor of the French, his campaigns across Europe and into Russia, and his final exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic. Along the way, you will meet his mother Letizia, the formidable Corsican matriarch who shaped him before France ever did; his father Carlo, the charming and ambitious lawyer who opened the doors of a French education; and the world of minor island nobility that formed him long before history noticed. This is a slow, careful walk through one complete life - told from the inside, year by year.