In 1776, the founder of the First French Empire and one of the greatest historical figures in French history, Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. Under the arrangement of his father, Napoleon entered the Brienne Military Academy in France when he was 10 years old. In 1795, he accepted the entrustment of the Paris governor and successfully suppressed the armed rebellion of the royalist forces. Napoleon was promoted to brigadier general and commander of the Paris garrison overnight, and he began to emerge in the military and political circles.
On March 2, 1796, the 26-year-old Napoleon was appointed commander-in-chief of the Italian Front in the French Republic. In Italy, Napoleon’s army repeatedly repelled the Austrian Empire. An anti-French alliance.
On November 6, 1804, Napoleon was crowned emperor, turning the republic into an empire. During his reign, he was called the "Emperor of the French", and he was also the second French emperor to have this title since Charles III.
He has repeatedly suppressed the rebellion of the reactionary forces, promulgated the "Napoleonic Code", perfected the world legal system, and established the social order of Western capitalist countries. Externally, he led his army to break through five anti-French alliances formed by Britain, Prussia, Austria, Russia and other countries, and won more than fifty large-scale battles, which severely hit the feudal systems of European countries and defended the fruits of the French Revolution.
Prosperous and inevitably killed by the soldiers, after the defeat of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon has inevitably failed. Later, he was placed under house arrest on St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1817, the British diplomatic envoy who had failed in the Qing Dynasty visited Napoleon, and asked the famous emperor about his views on China, and said that he believed that Britain could only force China to open up through war.
In the face of Amest’s stubborn opinion, Napoleon issued his famous saying that shocked Europe and spread through the ages. He said: "Dear Amest, I think China is not weak. It's just a sleeping lion, although now flies can also fall on the face of the lion and scream. But once it wakes up from its deep sleep, the whole world will inevitably be shaken by it. You should pray more to God and never let it Wake up!"
