Napoleon Bonaparte Part 1: Started from the Bottom  | 44
Even The Royals7 Okt 2024

Napoleon Bonaparte Part 1: Started from the Bottom | 44

Napoleon Bonaparte is notorious for being a power-hungry, vertically-challenged French emperor who conquered, and then pissed off, much of Europe in the 19th century. But Napoleon wasn’t that short, wasn’t born in France, and actually wanted to be a writer. He was an upstart from Corsica who started out as a bullied outcast just looking for some respect. But he quickly learns that men like him aren’t just handed respect. They have to take it for themselves.


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