Tucked away on a side street near the Corsican home where Napoleon Bonaparte was born, a mini museum invites young minds to relive the French emperor’s story – through scenes painstakingly built from hundreds of figurines from the German toy line, Playmobil.

Frederic Pierrot, a 53-year-old IT entrepreneur, came up with the idea a few years ago as a way to pay homage to the Mediterranean island’s most famous son while “rediscovering the historical reconstructions I did when I was 10 years old”.