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1800s in Paris
- Concordat of 1801The National Assembly seized church properties during the French Revolution. This action stripped the Catholic Church of its vast landholdings and income…
- Coronation of NapoleonNapoleon was crowned Emperor of the French on the 2nd of December 1804. This event marked the instantiation of a modern empire in France.
- Plot of the rue Saint-NicaiseAn Italian engineer in Spanish service created the explosive device known as the infernal machine during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585.