Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...

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COMPIEGNE, 24 No'bre, 1861. MONSIEUR, J'ai iu avec le plus vif interet le discours que vous avez pronounce au diner auquel assistait S.A.I. le Prince NAPOLEON et dont vous in'avez fait l'envoi.

Following a new constitution that reduced the assembly’s power, and a plebiscite, Louis-Napoléon declared himself emperor Napoléon III in 1852 Louis-Napoleon, and thus the second empire was born.

In an apparent jab at France, Russian President Vladimir Putin said later: "There are still people who want to return to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended." French Emperor Napoleon ...

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Equipped with a fake ID and other fake documents and wearing the cap of the Hungarian fascist youth organization Levente, my mission was to deliver gold Napoleon coins as bribes to high-ranking ...