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Bronze Table Top
Inlaid with Napoleon’s
portrait, this table marks
the victory at Austerlitz.
Josephine kneels
before Napoleon.

Napoleon holds the crown
for his Empress, Josephine. Russian Cossacks in the Palais-Royal
After Napoleon’s defeat and flight in 1814,
Paris suffered the humiliation of being
occupied by foreign troops, including
Austrians, Prussians and Russians.

The Pope makes the
sign of the cross.

Where to See
Napoleonic Paris
Many of the grand monuments
Napoleon planned for Paris were never
built, but two triumphal arches, the Arc
de Triomphe (pp212–13) and Arc de
Triomphe du Carrousel (p122), were a
major part of his legacy. La Madeleine
church (p218) was also inaugurat ed in
his reign and much of the Louvre was
rebuilt (pp122–3). Examples of the
Empire style can be seen at Malmaison
(p248) and at the Carnavalet (pp96–7).

Napoleon’s Coronation
Napoleon’s rather dramatic
crowning took place in 1804.
In this recreation by J L David,
the Pope, summoned to
Notre-Dame, looks on as
Napoleon crowns his Empress
just before crowning himself.
The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel was
The Empress erected in 1806 and crowned with the
Josephine was divorced horses looted from St Mark’s, Venice.
by Napoleon in 1809.

1842 First railway line
between Paris and
St-Germain-en-Laye opens

1820 1825 1830 1835 1840 1845
1821
Napoleon
dies
1830 Revolution in Paris 1831 Victor Hugo’s Notre- 1840 Reburial of
and advent of Dame de Paris published. Napoleon at
constitutional monarchy Cholera epidemic hits Paris Les Invalides Napoleon’s tomb

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