Editing Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (section)

===Early life and politics===
He was born at [[Alata, Corse-du-Sud|Alata]], near [[Ajaccio]], the son of Giuseppe Pozzo di Borgo of a noble Corsican family, four years before the island became a [[France|French]] possession. He was educated at [[Pisa]], and in early life was closely associated with [[Napoleon]] and [[Joseph Bonaparte]], the two families at that time being close political allies. Pozzo was one of two delegates sent to the National Assembly in [[Paris]] to demand the political incorporation of Corsica into France, and was subsequently one of the Corsican deputies to the Legislative Assembly, where he sat on the benches of the right until the [[10 August (French Revolution)|events of August 1792]].