Pasquale Paoli
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Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli was a Corsican patriot, statesman, and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later French rule over the island. He became the President of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica and wrote the Constitution of the state.
Commemorative plaque to Paoli at the monastery of Saint Anthony of Casabianca.
Paoli's name listed on the south face of the Burdett-Coutts Memorial Sundial in London
Pasquale Paoli by Henry Benbridge, 1768
From a book by Edward Joy Morris, published 1855
Corsican language
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Corsican is a Romance language consisting of the continuum of the Italo-Dalmatian dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, France, and in the northern regions of the island of Sardinia, Italy, located due south.
Bilingual road-signs, with the official (IGN) names (often with their roots in Italian) being crossed out by some local nationalists.
Funerary Inscription in Corsican language at the cemetery of Erbaggio (Nocario)