https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/young-napoleon-teenage-revolutionary/id1537788786?i=1000632831814 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/young-napoleon-the-shadow-of-the-guillotine/id1537788786?i=1000633003389
Didn’t really seem destined for greatness
- angsty
- scrawny
- awkward
- always an outsider because of Corsican-ness
Surprisingly precocious
- always reading
- wrote novels, short stories, histories
Republican, but at the same time authoritarian. Loves order, hates mobs, and believes in strong government.
- This is what gets him fame and power. He beats down the Parisian mob when others were too squeamish to do so.