French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in Casone Square in his birth city of Ajaccio, Corsica, photographed on March 15, 2021.
In France, Bonaparte goes by two nicknames: the Eagle among those who laud him as a military genius and force for modernisation throughout Europe, and the Ogre by those who see him as a war-mongering megalomaniac with a callous disregard for human suffering.
Napoleon took the role of first consul, making him France's leading political figure a position he consolidated by declaring himself Consul for Life in 1802 and Emperor in 1804, at the age of 35.
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