He is both "Italian" and "French", depending on your perspective.

Napoléon Bonaparte was born in ajaccio, Corsica on 1769. His family is an Italian aristocratic family. As soon as Corsica was sold to the French kingdom, the French king admitted that his father was a nobleman in the French kingdom. Under the arrangement of his father Carlo Buna Palthe, Napoleon crossed the Alps.

At the age of 9, he went to Brehon Military Academy for education. 1784 After graduating with honors, he was sent to the Paris Military Academy to specialize in artillery. Napoleon thought he was a foreigner at first, hoping to make Corsica independent from France one day. His father died at the age of 16. He dropped out of school and was awarded the title of second lieutenant in artillery. During his stay with the army in various places, he read many works of enlightenment thinkers, among which Rousseau's thoughts had a great influence on him. 1789 After the French Revolution broke out, Napoleon returned to Corsica, hoping to promote Corsica's independence, but was strongly opposed by another pro-British faction.

After Corsica was sold to France, he actively fought for Corsica's independence. Finally forced to compromise. But he didn't recognize France as his motherland until he was seventeen, and he signed his name in Italian for a long time, until he first entered Italy, and he signed his name in French.