In the next few years his education was snatched here and there, but his father was determined that he should be as well educated as possible. At the same time he found it extremely difficult to find the right teachers.
In fact, his son benefited as much from what his father taught him as from any of the men he employed.
A year later Napoleon became ‘Emperor of the French’ and the event certainly involved a fantastically elaborate coronation.
Jean-Pierre, like all the other boys of his age, was thrilled with the excitement and celebrations that took place in every town in the country, but most especially in Paris.
He did not realise how distressed his father and mother were to learn of the deaths of some of their friends from England. One of them had been a Naval Admiral, who had died
