Napoleon i Sentence Examples

The Cour des Comptes, an ancient tribunal, was abolished in 1791, and reorganized by Napoleon I.

His uncle was ennobled by King Louis XVI., and his father was made a count by Napoleon I.

The great source for Napoleon's life is the Correspondance de Napoleon I.

Side by side with these changes has proceeded the reorganization of the Royal Gallery of Ancient Art, which, created by Napoleon I.

Though the glory of Salerno had departed, the school actually existed till it was finally dissolved by an edict of the emperor Napoleon I.

The present fortifications were planned and made in 1815, the older defences having been destroyed by Napoleon I.

Millet, born near Cherbourg, stands in the public garden, and there is an equestrian statue of Napoleon I.

He was the ninth child of a carter, who wanted to make him a priest, but the lad at fifteen enlisted in a battalion of students to fight against the armies of Napoleon I.

This was suppressed by Napoleon I.

Servia, Egypt and the principalities were successively the scene of hostilities in which Turkey gained no successes, and in 1807 a British fleet appeared at Constantinople, strange to say to insist on Turkey's yielding to Russia's demands besides dismissing the ambassador of Napoleon I.

Letizia lived to witness the glory and the downfall of her great son, surviving Napoleon I.

A branch of the Cadolingi di Borgonuovo family, lords of Fucecchio in Tuscany from the 10th century onwards, which had acquired the name of Bonaparte, had settled near Sarzana before 1264; in 1512 a member of the family took up his residence in Ajaccio, and hence, according to some authorities, was descended the emperor Napoleon I.

In France, even after their expulsion in 1765, they had maintained a precarious footing in the country under the partial disguise and names of "Fathers of the Faith" or "Clerks of the Sacred Heart," but were obliged by Napoleon I.

After the peace of Tilsit the kingdom of Westphalia was created by Napoleon I.

The hotel de ville contains a library and a museum which possesses a collection of paintings of the Flemish school and some interesting souvenirs of Napoleon I.

The idea of making the Gulf of Spezia a great naval centre was first broached by Napoleon I.

In 1813 he went to Paris to obtain permission to join the embassy which Napoleon I.

The town gives its name to a great battle in which, on the 20th and 21st of May 1813, Napoleon I.

Znaim is best known to history for the armistice concluded here in 1809 after the battle of Wagram between Napoleon I.

At the age of twenty he was received advocate, and about the same time he gained some reputation as a writer of piquant and delicate poems. In 1810 he received from Napoleon I.

In 1814 Blois was for a short time the seat of the regency of Marie Louise, wife of Napoleon I.

The walls were dismantled by order of Napoleon I.

A second group of monuments on the Wilhelms-platz commemorates the generals of the Seven Years' War; and a third in the neighbourhood of the opera-house the generals who fought against Napoleon I.

To the east the Erzgebirge are separated from the Elbsandsteingebirge by the Nollendorf pass, traversed by the ancient military route to Saxony; it was the route followed by Napoleon I.

The only open spaces are the market-place and two other squares, one of which, facing the citadel, is adorned with a granite column erected (1818) in commemoration of the defeat of Napoleon I.

Subsequently he published Memoires du roi Joseph (1853-1855), and, as a sequel, Histoire des negotiations diplomatiques relatives aux 'mites de Morfontaine, de Luneville et d'Amiens, together with the unpublished correspondence of the emperor Napoleon I.

These documents, subsequently collected in Les Rois freres de Napoleon (1883), as well as the Journal de la reine Catherine de Westphalie (1893), were edited with little care and are not entirely trustworthy, but their publication threw much light on Napoleon I.

She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Wyse, British plenipotentiary at Athens, and Laetitia Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon I.

The party originated at the close of the wars with Napoleon I.

Many stories have been told about his childhood, for example the remark which Napoleon I.

The country seemed to forget him; Lamartine alone foretold that the honours paid to Napoleon I.

It was, however, dismantled by Napoleon I.

If not, then why was Napoleon I?