This 1902 illustraitons shows Napoleon as a novice in school of Brienne. Between May 1779 and October, 1784, the young Napoleon attended the military school in Brienne,  in the Champagne region, run by the Minimes religious order. Far from home and the frequent butt of his classmates' jokes, he began to feel like a foreigner and became withdrawn and restrained.

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