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1804 establishments in France

  • Marshal of the EmpireThe word Marshal traces its roots back to the Carolingians, from the ancient German word marascahl, a stable supervisor who took care of the king's horses.
  • Grande ArméeNapoleon stood at the Camp of Boulogne on the 16th of August 1804. He watched over an army of over 100,000 men gathered there for a planned invasion of the…
  • First French EmpireOn the 2nd of December 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte stood inside Notre-Dame de Paris to receive his imperial crown. Pope Pius VII had traveled from Rome to…
  • Napoleonic CodeOn the 12th of August 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte appointed a commission of four jurists to draft a new civil code for France.