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Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor December 2, 1804:

1804 - Napoleon proclaimed Emperor in France

On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor


Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the
coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and
crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the
Pontiff. As the nineteenth century progressed, Napoleon turned the
armies of the French Empire against every major European power and
came to be known as ‘the scourge of Europe’. The Romantics viewed him
as ‘a descendant of Milton’s Satan’ - a tyrant who had exposed the
hollowness of the rhetoric surrounding the French Revolution. Curiously,
Bryon viewed him as an exemplary tragic figure and experienced a strong
sense of self-identification with Napoleon, even commissioning a carriage
to be made which was an exact copy of the one the Emperor had
abandoned at Waterloo.
On May 18, 1804, the Sénat conservateur vested the Republican
government of the French First Republic in an emperor, and preparations
for a coronation followed. Napoleon's elevation to emperor was
overwhelmingly approved by the French citizens in the French
constitutional referendum of 1804. Among Napoleon's motivations for
being crowned were to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic
circles and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty.

Characters
Maria antonieta (The Queen)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Luis XVI (The King)
Pope Pius VII
Charles françois lebrun
Where it was made?
His coronation ceremony took place on December 2, 1804, in the
Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, with incredible splendor and at
considerable expense.

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