I know that this subject is a big and broad topic and not so easily answered. I have read alot of books about Napoleon and while reading I learned alot of Napoleons past and thus I always wondered about this. Before the revolution he saw himself as a corsican and hated the french, he wrote pamphlets and, I think, a play about a castaway on an island who killed shipwrecked french. It was along the line of this. He had a thick accent his whole life long and probably got made fun of it alot. Those are just the things that made wonder how he came from hating the French to being the Emperor of the French. Hence the poorly worded question: Did he ever see himself as french and did he love the people and in return did the people love him?