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The First French Empire [4] [a] or French Empire (French: Empire français; Latin: Imperium Francicum) and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.
Napoleon Bonaparte [b] (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; [1] [c] 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military officer and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.
The First French Empire was the regime established by Napoleon I in France. This empire lasted from 1804 to 1814, from the Consulate of the French First Republic to the Bourbon Restoration, and was briefly restored during the Hundred Days in 1815. The Second French Empire was the regime established in France by Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870 ...
Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French colonial empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and personally
Napoleon's mercenaries: foreign units in the French Army under Consulate and Empire, 1799 to 1814. Pen and Sword. ISBN 1-85367-488-5; Elting, John Robert (1997). Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armée. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80757-2; Fisher, Todd & Fremont-Barnes, Gregory (2004). The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire.
In 1810, the French Empire reached its greatest extent. Napoleon married Marie-Louise, an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ensuring a more stable alliance with Austria and of providing the Emperor with an heir (something his first wife, Joséphine, had failed to do).
The Second French Empire, [a] officially the French Empire, [b] was the government of France from 2 December 1852 to 4 September 1870 between the Second and the Third French Republics. Ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) , the period was one of significant achievements in infrastructure and economy, while France reasserted itself ...
Imperial coat of arms Arms granted to Joseph Christophe Couin, made a baron de Granchamp et de l'Empire in 1808 Patent of nobility granted to artillery colonel François Cabau, who became baron de l'Empire in 1810. As Emperor of the French, Napoleon I created titles in a newly established noblesse impériale (imperial nobility) to institute a ...