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34  INTRODUCING P ARIS

Napoleonic Paris

Napoleon Bonaparte was the most brilliant general in the French
army. The instability of the new government after the Revolution
gave him the chance to seize power, and in November 1799,
he installed himself in the Tuileries Palace as First Consul. He
crowned himself Emperor in May 1804. Napoleon established a
centralized administration and a code of laws, reformed France’s
educational system and set out to make Paris the most beautiful Extent of the City
city in the world. The city was endowed with grand monuments 1810 Today
and embellished with the spoils of conquest. His power was Ladies-in-Waiting
always fragile and dependent on incessant wars. In March hold Josephine’s train.
1814, Prussian, Austrian and Russian armies invaded Paris
and Napoleon fled to Elba. He returned to Paris in 1815
but was defeated at Waterloo and died in exile in 1821.

Château de Malmaison
This was the favourite
home of Josephine,
Napoleon’s first wife.

Opaline-Glass
Clock
The decoration
on this clock
echoed the
fashion for
draperies.
Eagle’s Flight
Elephant Project Napoleon’s flight
This monument to Elba in 1814
was planned for was satirized in
the centre of the this cartoon.
Place de la Bastille.

1799 Napoleon 1800 Banque de 1809 Napoleon 1815 Waterloo; second
seizes power France founded divorces Josephine abdication of Napoleon.
1797 Battle and marries Restoration of the monarchy
of Rivoli 1802 Legion of Marie-Louise
Honour established
1800 1805 1810 1815 1820
1804 Napoleon 1806 Arc de 1814 1821
Napoleon
crowned Triomphe commissioned Napoleon dies
1800 Napoleon abdicates
returns from Egypt 1812 Russian campaign Napoleon’s
on his ship L’Orient ends in defeat death mask

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Date 26th July 2012
Size 125mm x 217mm