On this day (December 2) in 1804 Napoleon ascended to the office of Emperor of the French. His coron
On this day (December 2) in 1804 Napoleon ascended to the office of Emperor of the French. His coronation, ratified by constitutional referendum, was an affair unlike anything seen before in France. it combined traditions dating from the medieval Carolingian Empire to the recently completed French Revolution. Images from: The life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos. London : printed for T. Tegg … W. Allason … & J. Dick, Edinburgh, 1815.Call Number: DC203.4 .C6 1815Catalog Record: https://bit.ly/2VrW51YJohn Abbott’s The history of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York : Harper & Brothers, publishers …, 1855.Call Number: DC203 .A2 1855b V.1Catalog Record: https://bit.ly/39CAlZx -- source link
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