Emperor Napoleon III of France offered a prize to anyone who could make a satisfactory alternative for butter, suitable for use by the armed forces and the lower classes. French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès invented a substance he called oleomargarine, the name of which became shortened to the trade name "margarine". Mège-Mouriès patented the concept in 1869 and expanded his initial manufacturing operation from France but had little commercial success. In 1871, he sold the patent to the Dutch company Jurgens, now part of Unilever. In the same year the German pharmacist Benedict Klein from Cologne founded the first margarine factory "Benedict Klein Margarinewerke", producing the brands Overstolz and Botteram
Napoleon was not born of French blood, but only of a minor, insignificant, noble Italian blood. Napoleon started his life in a big house, but with very little money. When Napoleon was 10 years old, he was sent to a military boarding school called Brienne-le-Château. This is where he first found his taste for power. As a young boy he would organize complex strategies in snowball fights. Napoleon was constantly tormented by his classmates for being small, and for having a thick Corsican accent."(Frank Mclynn) Napoleon only reached a height of 5,7.
During his Campaign in Russia the snow would float in the air rather then fall do to the increase in air density causing a fairy tale like appearance.