The First French Empire was an empire established by Napoleon Bonaparte to replace the Consulate. The First Empire began on May 18, 1804, with a senate resolution declaring Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France and concluded on April 6, 1814, when Napoleon abdicated and was banished to the island of Elba.
Napoleon became Emperor of France on May 18, 1804. He was crowned Emperor on December 2, 1804. This ended the time of the French Consulate. He won early military victories in the War of the Third Coalition against Austria, Prussia, Russia, Portugal, and the allied nations. The Peace of Tilsit in July 1807 ended two years of bloodshed in continental Europe.
France gained control over much of Western Europe and Poland during the battles that followed, known as the Napoleonic Wars. The French Empire possessed 130 bases, governed over 44 million people, and had a sizable army in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Principality of Warsaw at its peak in 1812. The spread of the French Civil Code expanded legal equality, established jury systems, and legalized divorce across the continent. Napoleon installed family members on the thrones of various European kingdoms. He bestowed numerous aristocratic titles, most of which vanished following the fall of the empire.
On April 11, 1814, Napoleon abdicated. In 1815, the Empire was established for a hundred days until Napoleon got lost at the Battle of Waterloo. The monarchy of the House of Bourbon came next.
History of the First French Empire
Background
The Beginning of the Empire (1804)
Napoleon Was Crowned on December 2, 1804
There were many emblems used during Napoleon's coronation. The coat of arms of the empire and a few additional emblems were necessary for the change from a republic to an empire in order to establish a previously unheard-of tradition. Napoleon sought to unite the symbols of current European power with those of the former French because he saw himself as the achiever of unification.
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