Which language spoke Napoleon I?

Skippy   Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:33 am GMT
I didn't realize Napoleon had the same genocidal tendencies...
Guest   Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:35 pm GMT
history is written by winners
Winner   Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:43 pm GMT
Don't tell ME that you loser!
PARISIEN   Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:24 pm GMT
<< "He was the greatest general modern italians ever produced - and the only good one. Besides, his soldiers weren't italians."

Not True. His soldiers were also Italians. André Masséna, was born Andrea Massena in Nice (Nizza Marittima). >>

-- Bullshit. Nonsense. Masséna was from Nice, and Nice NEVER was an ethnically Italian town.


<< His soldiers were also Italians. >>
-- There has been some Italian battalions in Napoleon's Army. But, thruth be said, they (already) had a very poor military repute.


Napoleon himself was Corsican, and as such his mother tongue was the Italian dialect spoken in Corsica. As a teenager he was admitted in a French military school, the other pupils laughed at him because of his heavy Italian accent. The boy got his revenge later...

An interesting thing is that Napoleon opened the era of 'peripheral France'. Among Napoleon's generals there were many Alsacians (Kellermann, Kleber), Lorrains (Ney, actually from Saarlouis, Saarland), another Corsican (D'Ornano), even men of Irish, Dutch and Polish origins (McDonald, Exelmans, Poniatowski). Prior to the revolution only pure breed Frenchmen from the nobilty were admitted as higher officers in the army.
Guest   Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:56 pm GMT
"Not True. His soldiers were also Italians. André Masséna, was born Andrea Massena in Nice (Nizza Marittima). >>

-- Bullshit. Nonsense. Masséna was from Nice, and Nice NEVER was an ethnically Italian town."

So also Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ludovico Brea, Giovanni Battista Bottero, Giuseppe Bres, Alfred Binet (Alfredo Binetti) and many other nissarts were not italians.
Guest   Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:01 pm GMT
"Napoleon himself was Corsican, and as such his mother tongue was the Italian dialect spoken in Corsica. As a teenager he was admitted in a French military school, the other pupils laughed at him because of his heavy Italian accent. The boy got his revenge later..."

Not true. His mother tongue was not Corsican because his family, formerly known as Buonaparte, were minor Italian nobility coming from Tuscan stock of Lombard origin set in La Spezia.
Guest   Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:12 pm GMT
"So also Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ludovico Brea, Giovanni Battista Bottero, Giuseppe Bres, Alfred Binet (Alfredo Binetti) and many other nissarts were not italians."

Correct and Carla Bruni is French.
Guest   Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:42 pm GMT
Carla Bruni is a bitch.
PARISIEN   Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:01 pm GMT
<< So also Giuseppe Garibaldi >>

-- Giuseppe Garibaldi was born in Nice but his parents were immigrants from Genoa.

<< [ Napoleon's ] mother tongue was not Corsican because his family, formerly known as Buonaparte, were minor Italian nobility coming from Tuscan stock of Lombard origin set in La Spezia. >>

-- Corsican is not only an Italian dialect, it is MORE Italian than any other because, whilst being based on Tuscan (Central Italy), it shares lots of phonetic features with Southern Italy and underwent heavy influences from Genoese, i.e. from Northern Italy.
Guest   Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:45 pm GMT
What would a Parisien know about Italy?