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| French Empire[1][2] Empire Français | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1804–1814 1815 | |||||||||||||||||||||
2.svg) Imperial Coat o airms
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Anthem: "Veillons au salut de l'Empire"' "Chant du départ" (de facto)[3][4] (Inglis: "Song of the Departure") "Marche consulaire" (Scots: "Mairch o the Consulate") | |||||||||||||||||||||
![The First French Empire at its greatest extent in 1812.[5] French Empire](/wiki/File:French_Empire_1812.svg) The First French Empire at its greatest extent in 1812.[5]
French Empire
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 The French Empire an sphere o influence in 1812.
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| Caipital | Paris | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Common leids | French | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Releegion | Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Judaism, Laïcité | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Govrenment | Absolute Monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Emperor | |||||||||||||||||||||
• 1804–1814/1815 | Napoleon I | ||||||||||||||||||||
• 1815 | Napoleon II[6] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Legislatur | Pairlament | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Corps législatif | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 May 1804 | |||||||||||||||||||||
• Coronation o Napoleon I | 2 December 1804 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 Julie 1807 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 Juin 1812 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 Aprile 1814 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 Mairch – 7 Julie 1815 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Aurie | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1812[5] | 860,000 km2 (330,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||||||||
• 1812 | 44000000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Currency | French Franc | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The First French Empire[1][2] (French: Empire Français), wis the empire o Napoleon Bonaparte o Fraunce an the dominant pouer in much o continental Europe at the beginnin o the 19t century.
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 But still domestically styled as French Republic until 1808: compare the French franc minted in 1808 [1] and in 1809 [2], as well as Article 1 of the Constitution of the Year XII, which reads in English "The Government of the Republic is vested in an Emperor, who takes the title of Emperor of the French."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The official bulletin of laws of the French Empire
- ↑ Le Chant du Départ, Fondation Napoléon, 2008, retrieved 16 May 2012
- ↑ Words and Music, Fondation Napoléon, 2008, retrieved 6 July 2014
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Taagepera1997
- ↑ Accordin tae his faither's will anly. Atween 23 Juin an 7 Julie Fraunce wis held bi a Commission o Govrenment o five members, which never summoned Napoleon II as emperor in ony offeecial act, an no regent wis ever appyntit while waitin the return o the keeng. [3]
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