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Putin & Napoleon: A True Story of Overreach, Hubris, and the Contemptible Betrayal of Paupers Passing Themselves off as Princes
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America’s grotesquely mediocre Emperor
Napoleon’s nephew Louis – who was elected president in 1848, retained power by means of a coup d’état in 1851, and later crowned himself emperor as Napoleon III – seized on this when he ...
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Letter: Emperor who wanted to ‘make France great again’
Soon after, he more or less promised to make France great again and declared himself emperor. Without wanting to comment on the relative pluses and minuses of Napoleon III’s reign, I can only ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate27d
Thoughts on kings
On December 2, 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. During the coronation, he received the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself ...
The Fayetteville Observer1mon
City namesake Lafayette spoke truth to power against Napoleon, who Trump quoted. | Opinion
One showed Napoleon being crowned emperor ... But when Napoleon took a path that eventually led to him declaring himself emperor, the former hero of the American revolution could not go along.
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Napoleon in Animal Farm
The name also evokes the French military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte (1776-1821), who seized power after the French Revolution, crowned himself Emperor and ruled France until 1815. Napoleon himself ...