Napoléon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821), born Napoleone di Buonaparte, and later Napoleon I, was a Corsican military and political leader who ruled first as the First Consul of France from 1799 to 1804, then as Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. He rose to power amidst the chaos and political turmoil of the French Revolution. On many occasions he was an ally of the Assassin Brotherhood and had a long and complicated friendship with the Assassin Arno Dorian. He is a fictionalized version of the historical French emperor.