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Carlo's Gamble: The Patronage Chain That Made Napoleon Possible
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Napoleon's rise began not on a battlefield but in a calculated bet made by his father Carlo on the French colonial rulers of Corsica — and a governor's patronage that set everything in motion. Episode three traces the chain from Marbeuf's influence to the scholarship that sent a nine-year-old to Brienne and a grieving sixteen-year-old toward destiny.
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He was sixteen years old. He held a real officer's commission in the French Royal Artillery.
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