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1815 disestablishments in France

  • Chamber of Representatives (France)The Chamber of Representatives emerged under the Charter of 1815 as a new popularly elected lower body for France. Six hundred twenty-nine members served…
  • 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…
  • Switzerland in the Napoleonic eraIn 1790, a group of exiled Vaudois and Fribourgers gathered in Paris to form the Helvetian Club. They spread ideas from the French Revolution across western…