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1810s in France

  • Napoleonic WarsBritain declared war on France on the 18th of May 1803, ending a brief period of peace that had lasted since the Treaty of Amiens.
  • 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…