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
Corsica
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Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the French mainland, west of the Italian Peninsula and immediately north of the Italian island of Sardinia, the nearest land mass. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of the island. As of January 2024, it had a population of 355,528.
The Romanesque-Pisan style of the Church of Aregno
The Barbary pirates frequently attacked Corsica
Pasquale Paoli