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Napoleonic era
- Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)Napoleon I stood before the Milan Cathedral on the 23rd of May 1805 to receive the Iron Crown of Lombardy. This moment marked the official birth of the…
- 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…
- Napoleonic looting of artIn 1794, the French revolutionary government shifted from destroying religious art to claiming it as national heritage. Abbot Henri Grégoire argued that…