Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.

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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 ...

318 pages. Norton. $5.95. In August 1805, eight months after he had unceremoniously crowned himself Emperor of the French, Napoleon was up to his coronet in complications. His invasion of England ...

Trump jokingly declared himself a sovereign last month ... using a phrase sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, the emperor of the French. But the president has also asked advisers in recent ...

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