However, just as the French Revolution created opportunities for Napoleon, it also changed Paoli’s fortunes. Paoli’s ...

After the French Revolution he returned home and negotiated with the English who had a Viceroy there. He finally left the island in 1795. Paoli was buried in the Catholic cemetery at St Pancras in ...

But Paoli had given up the fight and spent most of Napoleon’s youth in exile in England. His road to return to Corsica opened in 1789 as the events leading to the French Revolution unfolded.