Top 10 Lesser Known Facts About Napoleon →Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/toptenzsubscribe →10 Reasons Bruce Lee was a Superhuman: http://bit.ly/1Hl4mVu Entertaining and educational top 10 lists from TopTenzNet! Brand new videos 7 days a week! Videos are published at 6pm EST every day! Other TopTenz Videos: Top 10 Failed Assassinations That Would Have Changed History http://bit.ly/1V4exXS Napoleon wasn’t just some power crazy dictator who wanted to rule all of Europe, although there are bits of truth in that statement. In reality, Napoleon was a more complex man than what you learned about in high school. He made the countries he conquered write democratic, revolutionary constitutions, but he also made his siblings monarchs of his new conquests. He passionately loved his older wife, Josephine, but he put her aside to marry a younger royal who could give him the heirs his new empire needed. Napoleon showed kindness and consideration to his second wife, but he threatened to kidnap her when she refused to join him in exile on Elba. Here are some other lesser known facts about this paradoxical man. Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-lesser-known-facts-napoleon.php Coming up: 10. Napoleon’s Real Name Wasn’t Napoleon 9. He Wasn’t Naturally Good At Tactics 8. Napoleon Was An Ardent Nationalist, But Not For The French 7. Napoleon Was Quite Young When He Rose To Fame 6. Napoleon’s Supposed Shortness Was Just British Propaganda 5. No One Is Certain How Napoleon Died 4. He Once Wrote A Romantic Novella 3. We Only Understand Hieroglyphs Because Napoleon Really Wanted To Own Egypt 2. He Implied His Touch Could Heal The Sick 1. Napoleon Liked Cats Source/Other reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Buonaparte http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/220971/Coup-of-18-Fructidor http://www.napoleon.org/en/reading_room/articles/files/479165.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tristan,_marquis_de_Montholon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clisson_et_Eug%C3%A9nie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e_Clary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques-Fran%C3%A7ois_Menou http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte_Visiting_the_Plague_Victims_of_Jaffa http://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/fact-or-fiction-boneys-feline-phobia/