Napoleon Bonaparte – Biographical information from the WeGA

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Napoleon I., Kaiser von Frankreich Alternative Names
August 15, 1769 in Ajaccio auf Korsika
†

May 5, 1821 in St. Helena
General, Staatsmann
Paris

Iconography

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Napoleon's father, Carlo Buonaparte, fought for Corsican independence under Pasquale Paoli. After their defeat, he eventually became the island's representative to Louis XVI's court. (Source: Wikimedia)

Statue of Bonaparte as a schoolboy in Brienne, aged 15, by Louis Rochet [fr] (1853) (Source: Wikimedia)

Bonaparte, aged 23, as lieutenant-colonel of a battalion of Corsican Republican volunteers. Portrait made in 1835 by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (Source: Wikimedia)

Bonaparte at the Siege of Toulon, 1793, by Edouard Detaille (Source: Wikimedia)

Journée du 13 Vendémiaire, artillery fire in front of the Church of Saint-Roch, Paris, Rue Saint-Honoré (Source: Wikimedia)

Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole, by Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, (c. 1801), Musée du Louvre, Paris (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon at the Battle of Rivoli, by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux (Source: Wikimedia)

Bonaparte Before the Sphinx (c. 1886) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, Hearst Castle (Source: Wikimedia)

Battle of the Pyramids on 21 July 1798 by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, 1808 (Source: Wikimedia)

General Bonaparte surrounded by members of the Council of Five Hundred during the Coup of 18 Brumaire, by François Bouchot (Source: Wikimedia)

Bonaparte, First Consul, by Ingres. Posing the hand inside the waistcoat was often used in portraits of rulers to indicate calm and stable leadership. (Source: Wikimedia)

The 1803 Louisiana Purchase totalled 2,144,480 square kilometres (827,987 square miles), doubling the size of the United States. (Source: Wikimedia)

Silver 5 francs coin depicting Napoleon as First Consul from AN XI, 1802 (Source: Wikimedia)

The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David (1804) (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon's throne room at Fontainebleau (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon in his coronation robes by François Gérard, c. 1805 (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon and the Grande Armée receive the surrender of Austrian General Mack after the Battle of Ulm in October 1805. (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz, by François Gérard, 1805. (Source: Wikimedia)

The Iranian envoy Mirza Mohammad-Reza Qazvini meeting with Napoleon at the Finckenstein Palace in West Prussia, 27 April 1807, to sign the Treaty of Finckenstein (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon reviewing the Imperial Guard before the Battle of Jena, 14 October 1806 (Source: Wikimedia)

The Treaties of Tilsit: Napoleon meeting with Alexander I of Russia on a raft in the middle of the Neman River, 7 July 1807 (Source: Wikimedia)

Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, as King of Spain (1808–1813) (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon Accepting the Surrender of Madrid, 4 December 1808 (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon at the Battle of Wagram, 6 July 1809 (Source: Wikimedia)

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Napoleon watching the fire of Moscow in September 1812, by Adam Albrecht (1841) (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon's withdrawal from Russia, painting by Adolph Northen (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon and Prince Poniatowski at Leipzig, painting by January Suchodolski (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon after his abdication in Fontainebleau, 4 April 1814, by Paul Delaroche (Source: Wikimedia)

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Complete Works of Carl Maria von Weber. Digital Edition, https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/A008671 (Version 4.11.0 of July 1, 2024)
Last change of this document on April 23, 2019

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