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Pyongshin Sangja
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Of which country is Corsica a part?
Administratively, it forms two Départements and one Region of France. Haute Corse (2B) is to the north and its capital is Bastia. To the south is Corse du Sud (2A) with its capital in Ajaccio, which is also the regional capital and is the seat of the regional government - the Collectivité Territoriale de Corse (CTC). Thus Corsica is in the EU and the currency is the Euro.
However don't forget that Corsica is not France. Iin fact it was acquired by France from bankrupt Genoa under the Treaty of Versailles in 1768. The country had been independent from 1755, though Genoa had hung onto the fortified towns of Ajaccio, Bastia, Bonifacio, Calvi and St Florent. Corsica had been the first country to have elected its parliament - Consulta - by universal suffrage (men and women). Small wonder then, that there is now an expression of the desire for autonomy. |
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ilovebdt
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| Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
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Of which country is Corsica a part?
Administratively, it forms two Départements and one Region of France. Haute Corse (2B) is to the north and its capital is Bastia. To the south is Corse du Sud (2A) with its capital in Ajaccio, which is also the regional capital and is the seat of the regional government - the Collectivité Territoriale de Corse (CTC). Thus Corsica is in the EU and the currency is the Euro.
However don't forget that Corsica is not France. Iin fact it was acquired by France from bankrupt Genoa under the Treaty of Versailles in 1768. The country had been independent from 1755, though Genoa had hung onto the fortified towns of Ajaccio, Bastia, Bonifacio, Calvi and St Florent. Corsica had been the first country to have elected its parliament - Consulta - by universal suffrage (men and women). Small wonder then, that there is now an expression of the desire for autonomy. |
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So, tell me why I have never heard of it referred to as the Country of Corsica? Sorry YBM, bad info there. |
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SPINOZA
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Thanks again for the suggestions - the game's been a lot of fun so far. Arnold throws them completely. 'What's his country of birth? ... no it's Austria! ... what's his first nationality? ... no, it's not Australian ... what's his mother tongue? ... no, it's not English ... no, it's not Australian'. Osama gets a lot of laughs when we get to 'where does he live today?'. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Another really cute moment: we got to James Dean and when I asked 'where does he live today?' one girl said 'in heaven'. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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| So, tell me why I have never heard of it referred to as the Country of Corsica? Sorry YBM, bad info there. |
Because it was only independent from 1755 to 1768. That was a long time ago.
In his day, Napoleon was known in France as "Le Corse." He was seen as an outsider. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
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| So, tell me why I have never heard of it referred to as the Country of Corsica? Sorry YBM, bad info there. |
Because it was only independent from 1755 to 1768. That was a long time ago.
In his day, Napoleon was known in France as "Le Corse." He was seen as an outsider. |
So his first nationality was officially Corsican? |
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Pyongshin Sangja
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| Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) was a general and politician of France. |
He was born in Corsica the year after it became part of France. So, no, I guess he was always French.
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| Not a Frenchman by birth, Napoleon Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio on Corsica - only just sold to France by the Italian state of Genoa - on 15 August 1769 and learnt French at the school of Autun and later the military academy at Brienne. He never fully mastered French and his spelling left a lot to be desired. |
http://www.napoleonguide.com/leaders_napoleon.htm
This sort of contradicts itself, stating that he was born on Corsica shortly after its sale to France but that he wasn't a Frenchman. Regardless, his first language was Corsican and he never, according to this, fully mastered French. His accent and lack of fluency would have tagged him as an outsider.
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The French occupation of their native country was resisted by a number of Corsicans led by Pasquale Paoli. Carlo Buonaparte joined Paoli's party, but, when Paoli had to flee, Buonaparte came to terms with the French. Winning the protection of the governor of Corsica, he was appointed assessor for the judicial district of Ajaccio in 1771. In 1778 he obtained the admission of his two eldest sons, Joseph and Napoleon, to the Collège d'Autun.
A Corsican by birth, heredity, and childhood associations, Napoleon continued for some time after his arrival in Continental France to regard himself a foreigner; yet from age nine he was educated in France as other Frenchmen were. While the tendency to see in Napoleon a reincarnation of some 14th-century Italian condottiere is an overemphasis on one aspect of his character, he did, in fact, share neither the traditions nor the prejudices of his new country: remaining a Corsican in temperament, he was first and foremost, through both his education and his reading, a man of the 18th century. |
So, his father actually fought the French at first and then became a French civil official. Was he French? Good question. |
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tomato
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| Not a Frenchman by birth, Napoleon Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio on Corsica . . . |
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