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    On 18 May 1804, Napoleon was granted the title Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français, pronounced [ɑ̃.pʁœʁ de fʁɑ̃.sɛ]) by the French Sénat conservateur...
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    Dubox (1728). Histoire De La Ligue Faite A Cambray Entre Jules II. Pape, Maximilien I. Empereur Louis XII. Roy de France, Ferdinand V. Roy d'Arragon, & Tous...
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    Louvre (redirect from Musee du Louvre)
    previous length. A smaller but significant Second Empire project was the decoration of the salle des Empereurs below the Salon carré.[citation needed] Entrance...
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    and now Salle des Empereurs. At the time, the room on the first floor above, later Salon Carré, was known as Grand Salon or Salon du Louvre.: 11  Henry...
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    Composer Franz Liszt included a "Marche funèbre, en mémoire de Maximilian I, empereur de Mexique" (a funeral march, in memory of Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico)...
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    of Emperor Napoleon I surrounded by the relief inscription "NAPOLÉON I EMPEREUR" (English: "NAPOLÉON I EMPEROR"). A ring or small orbs separates the central...
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    Eugène Sue (redirect from Marie Joseph Sue)
    a novel graphically depicting slavery in the Roman Empire (The Iron Collar). Other Les Mystères du peuple novels dealt with Early Christianity (The Silver...
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    declared himself Emperor of the French (Empereur des Français) on 18 May 1804, thus creating the French Empire (Empire Français). Napoleon relinquished the...
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    by Victor Hugo in a 1846 poem of la Légende des siècles: Charlemagne, empereur à la barbe fleurie, Revient d'Espagne ; il a le cœur triste, il s'écrie :...
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    "Emperor of the French" (Empereur des Français) was used in 19th-century France, during the first and second French Empires, between 1804 and 1814, again...
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