Short answers, pulled from the story.
Ajaccio is the capital and largest city of Corsica, France. It sits on the west coast of the island, 210 nautical miles southeast of Marseille, and serves as the prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud as well as the head office of the Collectivité territoriale de Corse.
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio in 1769. His family home, a four-story building in the city, is now preserved as the Maison Bonaparte museum. In 1811, as emperor, he made Ajaccio the capital of the new Department of Corsica.
Work on the rebuilt city began on the 21st of April 1492. The Bank of Saint George at Genoa commissioned the architect Cristoforo of Gandini, who started by building a castle on Capo di Bolo and then constructed residences for several hundred people around it.
On the 9th of September 1943, Ajaccio rose against the Nazi occupiers and became the first French town to be liberated from German domination. General Charles de Gaulle visited the city on the 8th of October 1943 to mark the occasion.
The Horticultural Colony of Saint Anthony, opened in 1855, was the first prison in France for children. It held juvenile delinquents aged 8 to 20, and nearly 1,200 children from across France passed through it before it closed in 1866. Sixty percent of them died from poor sanitation and malaria.
The earliest certain written record is Epistle 77, written in 601 AD by Pope Gregory the Great to the Defensor Boniface, urging him not to leave Adjacium without a bishop. Gregory had also mentioned the city's diocese in 591. The word Adjacium was not standard Latin, suggesting it was a Latinization of an earlier, non-Latin name.