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72 unusual facts about Napoléon


Aachen Rathaus

Since the end of the Imperial City era and the Napoleonic occupation of the area, the structural condition of the City Hall was greatly neglected, so that the building was seen to be falling apart by 1840.

A portrait of Napoleon from 1807 (produced by Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet) and one of his wife Joséphine from 1805 (made by Robert Lefèvre) are viewable as part of the tour.

Alexander Column

The monument was erected after the Russian victory in the war with Napoleon's France.

Art repatriation

The scale of plundering that took place under Napoleon's French Empire was unprecedented in modern history with the only comparable looting expeditions taking place in ancient Roman history.

Barat Shakinskaya

The part of Kostya played by her at the Ganja Theatre and also Napoleon's part played in Baku, in 1934 were particularly noteworthy.

Barthélémi de Stürmer

Stürmer soon saw impossibility of fulfilling the mission entrusted by Metternich and which was to ensure of his own eyes of the presence of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on the island, to denounce any attempt to escape and to write every month a report/ratio in agreement with the other police chiefs.

Capel Lofft

A strong supporter of Napoleon, he wrote numerous letters to the press (Morning Chronicle 31st of july and 10th of august 1815) opposing the Government's decision to send Napoleon to St Helena and himself attempted to serve a writ of habeas corpus while Napoleon was held on board a ship in Plymouth.

Charles Dugua

He was present during Napoleon's 1798 campaign in Egypt.

Classical cipher

Many classical ciphers were used by well-respected people, such as Julius Caesar and Napoleon, who created their own ciphers which were then popularly used.

Claude Ribbe

In his book The Crime of Napoleon (2005), Ribbe controversially accused Napoleon of having used sulphur dioxide gas for the mass execution of more than 100,000 rebellious black slaves when trying to put down slave rebellions in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and Guadeloupe.

Client state

During the First French Empire, while Napoleon and the French army conquered Europe, such states changed, and several new states were formed.

Clisson et Eugénie

Clisson et Eugénie is a romantic novella, written by Napoleon.

Craighead County, Arkansas

Napoleon, having realized that his plans could not come to fruition, offered to sell the United States the entire territory of Louisiana, including Craighead County, for $23,213,568.

Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo

In 1890 Dinuzulu was captured by the British and exiled to the island of St. Helena—the same as Napoleon—for seven years for leading a Zulu army against the British from 1883 to 1884.

Dr. Linus

Here he is teaching the class about Napoleon's exile and the loss of his power; the comparison ties into Ben's own exile from the island and demotion from leader on the original timeline.

Düsseldorf-Vennhausen

In 1809 Vennhausen became a part of the communal district of Gerresheim due to the Napoleonic area reforms at that time.

Ethirum Pudhirum

A female leader of a major political party is kidnapped by a terrorist Veeraiyan(Nassar) and he promises to return her back if his injured brother Arasappan (Napoleon) is treated well and brought back safely.

Edhirum Pudhirum எதிரும் புதிரும் is a Tamil movie starring Mammootty, Sangeetha, Napoleon, Manorama and Simran Bagga directed by Dharani under his real name V.C. Ramani.

First Geneva Convention

Between the fall of the first Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the rise of his nephew in the Italian campaign of 1859, the powers had maintained peace in western Europe.

Five Flags Center

It is named for the five flags that have flown over Dubuque; the Fleur de Lis of France (1673–1763), the Royal Flag of Spain (1763–1803), the Union Jack of Great Britain (1780, during a brief interruption of Spanish rule), the French Republic Flag of Napoleon (1803) & America's Stars and Stripes (1803–Present).

Fontaine des Innocents

In 1858, during the Second French Empire of Louis Napoleon, the fountain was moved one more time to its present location on a more modest pedestal in the middle of the square; and six basins of pouring water, one above the other, were added on each facade.

Francisco Espoz y Mina

When Napoleon endeavoured to seize Spain in that year he enlisted in the Doyle regiment, and then entered the guerrilla group commanded by his nephew Francisco Javier Mina.

George William Manby

In 1803, his pamphlet An Englishman's Reflexions on the Author of the Present Disturbances, on Napoleon's plans to invade England, came to the attention of the Secretary of War, Charles Yorke, who was impressed and recommended Manby to be appointed as Barrack-Master at Great Yarmouth.

Glengarriff

Offering a broad view of the surrounding area, the round Martello tower on the island was built to guard against a threatened Napoleonic invasion that never materialized.

Gmina Konopnica, Lublin Voivodeship

The rich history of the borough is also reflected by places such as the Swedish military cemetery in Motycz Leśny; "Castle Hill" in Motycz or the lime tree under which Napoleon rested during his march on Russia.

Great Synagogue of Vilna

According to legend it was so magnificent and impressive, Napoleon who stood on the threshold of this synagogue in 1812 and gazed at the interior was speechless with admiration.

Henry Botterell

On May 16, 1917, Botterell became a Probationary Flight Officer with the RNAS, where he was given the nickname "Nap" because of his supposed resemblance to Napoleon.

Hotel Hell Vacation

After having mis-communications with the receptionist at the front desk (Robert Stephenson), Clark and Ellen finally get into their room the Napoleon suite, which turns out to be very small.

Iecava

It was the scene of a victory over Russian forces by Prussian troops fighting for Napoleon during his invasion of Russian Empire and was also the scene of fighting during the Second World War German retreat from the Soviet Union.

Imperial and Royal Majesty

Napoleon I was also styled Imperial and Royal Majesty between 1805 and 1814 as Emperor of the French and King of Italy.

Jacques François Mouret

Mouret was one of many strong players who played hidden in the Turk (others being Johann Baptist Allgaier, who defeated Napoleon in 1809, Schlumberger, Boncourt and Lewis).

Jameson Raid

In 1806 Great Britain took over the Cape to prevent the territory falling into Napoleon's hands and to secure control over the crucial Far Eastern trade routes.

Jean-Louis Michel

Jean-Louis served as a soldier in the French army under Napoleon.

Jogo do Pau

There are references to this martial art being used by the guerrilla against the troops of Napoleon that were occupying Lisbon during the Peninsular War.

Johannes van der Palm

In 1812 he was called to account for not paying tribute to emperor Napoleon in his speech at the start of the academic year.

Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon

They travelled around together in Europe, meeting Napoleon, Lord Byron and the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen.

La Bourse

Balzac also portrays in this short novel a social category to which he often returns in La Comédie humaine: the forgotten victims of Napoleon.

Liga Federal

On May 13, 1810, the arrival of a British frigate in Montevideo confirmed the rumors circulating in Buenos Aires: France, led by Emperor Napoleon, had invaded Spain, capturing and overthrowing Ferdinand VII Bourbon, the Spanish King.

Louis Didier Jousselin

Hamburg was only surrendered when orders came from the French King following the fall of Napoleon.

Mariano Álvarez de Castro

In December 1823 French troops, ironically invading Spain in order to restore the tottering throne of Ferdinand VII, passed through Figueres, and on the orders of Marshal Moncey, formerly Napoleon's Inspector-General of Police, destroyed the plaque.

Mary Dixon Kies

(Napoleon was at war with many nations of Europe at the time, and one way he tried to win the war was to block trade and hurt his enemies economically. The U.S. did not want to be drawn into this conflict.)

Military of Austria-Hungary

Austria was prominent in the coalitions that tried to contain Napoleon but was defeated in 1800, again in 1805 when Napoleon occupied Vienna after the Battle of Austerlitz, and finally after the Battle of Wagram in 1809.

Municipal arrondissements of France

In 1805 Napoleon reunited all the large cities of France, but Paris was left divided.

Napoleon's Campaigns in Miniature

It is based upon war gaming in the Napoleonic era, and provides information on History, Weapons, Painting, and also its own set of rules.

Napoleon's Death Mask

In 1894, Bryan donated this mask to his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Napoleon's planned invasion of the United Kingdom

He envisaged doing this by having the Brest and Toulon Franco-Spanish fleets break out from the British blockade (led at Brest by Collingwood and Toulon by Nelson), and then sail across the Atlantic to threaten the West Indies.

Napoleon's problem

Napoleon was known to be an amateur mathematician but it is not known if he either created or solved the problem.

Natalie D-Napoleon

In the live arena, D-Napoleon has shared billings with the likes of Morphine, Ken Stringfellow, Jack Frost (featuring Steve Kilbey and Grant McLennan), The Stems, John Butler, Ash Grunwald, Dan Kelly, Whitley, Nic Dalton, Todd Snider, John Doe, Mark Olson, Victoria Williams and Vic Chesnutt.

Noli me tangere Casket

At the beginning of the nineteenth century Aachen and the Rheinland were under French occupation and in 1804 Empress Joséphine, wife of Napoleon, visited Aachen.

Old Government House, Auckland

Apparently the Auckland house supplied to the first Governor of New Zealand was similar to the one sent to Saint Helena to house Napoleon (although he refused to move into it).

Paragraph 175

In the course of his conquests, Napoleon exported the French Penal Code beyond France into a sequence of other states such as the Netherlands.

Peace treaty

Famous examples include the Treaty of Paris (1815), signed after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, and the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War conflict between Germany and Autro-Hungary and the Western Allies.

Prince Frederick of the Netherlands

When Napoleon returned from Elba, during the Hundred Days the prince was given command of a detachment of Wellington's army which was posted in a fall back position near Braine should the battle taking place at Waterloo be lost.

Saitō Chikudō

He knew the history of Western countries and was using Noah, the history of Babylonia, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Napoleon and George Washington as poem themes.

Sandy McMahon

The later was derived from the French President Patrice de Mac-Mahon, duc de Magenta, the descendant of an Irish soldier who had severed under Napoleon.

Sejm of the Duchy of Warsaw

It was created in 1807 by Napoleon, who granted a new constitution to the recently created Duchy.

Seven Faces

Papa Chibou (Paul Muni), the elderly caretaker of Musée Pratouchy, a Parisian wax museum, feels a strong kinship with the figures, particularly with that of Napoleon.

Slab serif

Following Napoleon's Egyptian campaign and dissemination of images and descriptions via publications like Description de l'Égypte (1809) an intense cultural fascination with all things Egyptian followed.

Soufrière Quarter

The nearby plantation at Anse Mamin is reputed to be the birthplace of Napoleon's Empress Josephine de Beauharnais.

St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres

After the Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, Ypres was incorporated into the diocese of Ghent, and Saint Martin's lost its status as a cathedral.

Sten Forshufvud

Sten Forshufvud (1903-1985) was a Swedish dentist and physician, Napoleonican, and amateur toxicologist (expert on poisons) who formulated and supported the controversial theory that Napoleon was assassinated by a member of his entourage while in exile.

Stoodley Pike

The monument replaced an earlier structure, started in 1814 and commemorating the defeat of Napoleon and the surrender of Paris.

Svojanov

In December 1798 the Russian legions marched through Svojanov to fight against Napoleon.

Sydney Harbour defences

In 1790 the Dawes Point Battery was meant to be the first line of defence against an attack by the Spanish Empire, Napoleon’s French troops in 1810, and the Russian Pacific Fleet in the 1850s (during the Crimean War).

The Pearl of Death

After a third killing Holmes finds the common feature of each: a bust of Napoleon.

Third Partition of Poland

These Polish nationalists participated in uprisings against Austria, Prussia, and Russia in former Polish lands, and many would serve France as part of Napoleon’s armies.

Titles of Nobility Amendment

There is speculation that the Congress proposed the amendment in response to the 1803 marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, Jerome, and Betsy Patterson of Baltimore, Maryland, who gave birth to a boy for whom she wanted aristocratic recognition from France.

Turners

A German gymnastic movement was started by Turnvater (turners' father) Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in the early 19th century when Germany was occupied by Napoleon.

Umar Makram

He was prominent in resistance to the 1798 invasion of Egypt by France (led by Napoleon).

Vistula delta Mennonites

In the liberation wars of 1813, some young Mennonites were prepared to join the forces against Napoleon.

Wilhelmplatz

In 1796 Prince Antoni Radziwiłł had acquired the Palais Schulenburg, it was seized by troops of the French Empire in 1806 and temporarily served as the seat of Napoleon's townmajor.

WTPS

WTPS-LP, a low-power radio station (94.1 FM) licensed to Napoleon, Ohio, United States


Alcide Segoni

In 1874, he completed a large canvas of Death of Filippo Strozzi, afterwards he painted a Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna; Il Maresciallo d'Anere at the Court of the Regent Queen Maria; and Napoleon I awards a dragoon the Legion of Honor.

Allaman

The wealthy Genevan philanthropist Jean-Jacques de Sellon, who owned the property until 1839, gave accommodation at the castle to, amongst many others, such political refugees as Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, the Duke of Bassano, the Count Camille Cavour, Voltaire as well as to Franz Liszt and George Sand.

Allonsanfàn

Against the backdrop of the Bourbon Restoration, Lombard aristocrat Fulvio Imbriani, a former political extremist who once served under Napoleon, is finally released from an Austrian jail, after a lengthy sentence for his part in the secret Sublime Brotherhood.

Ankō Itosu

Remember the words attributed to the Duke of Wellington after he defeated Napoleon: "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."

Anthony Napoleon

Anthony Napoleon, Ph.D., 1979 Graduate of International University's College of Arts and Sciences, School of Psychology, is a nationally recognized trial analyst and forensic psychologist.

Arthur Oliver Wheeler

His grandfather was William Oliver Wheeler, who fought with the 12th Royal Lancers against Napoleon in Portugal and Spain, and later became mayor of Kilkenny.

Bedřichovice

1 December 1805 – prior to the Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805) the French emperor Napoleon I. is said to have spent a night in his carriage somewhere in the area adjacent to the village

Black Powder War

Laurence, who has been out of touch for over a year, learns more details of Napoleon's crushing victory at the Battle of Austerlitz, which he had only received scant details of during the voyage to China.

Bounty jumper

He would become known as the "Napoleon of Crime", a label Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would borrow when creating the character Professor Moriarty, whom Doyle loosely based on Worth.

Canino

Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, was lord of Canino and is buried in the town's collegiate church.

Charles Bianconi

Born Carlo Bianconi, Costa Masnaga (Italy) on September 24, 1786, he moved from an area poised to fall to Napoleon and travelled to Ireland in 1802, via England, just four years after the 1798 rebellion.

Charles Nicolas Fabvier

Napoleon rewarded him by naming him artillery major in the VI Corps under Marshal Ney.

Charles Nicolas Odiot

Charles-Nicolas Odiot (died 1869) was the outstanding French silversmith of his generation; the son of Napoleon's silversmith, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, he inherited the direction of the extensive family workshops in 1827, as techniques of factory production were extended in the trade.

Chateaubriand steak

Chateaubriand steak, or just chateaubriand, is a recipe of a particular thick cut from the tenderloin (fillet), which, according to Larousse Gastronomique, was created by personal chef, Montmireil, for François-René de Chateaubriand and Sir Russell Retallick, the authors and diplomats who served Napoleon as an ambassador and Louis XVIII as Secretary of State for two years.

Destroy All Monsters

The New York Times did not review the film upon release, but film critic Howard Thompson gave it a positive review on a re-release at a children's matinee with the Bugs Bunny short, Napoleon Bunny-Part, in December 1970.

Fort Fuentes

The fortress was largely demolished in 1796 by general Rambeau on the orders of Napoleon and at the request of the Grisons.

George Davenport

In the fall of 1803, shortly after arriving with a cargo from Liverpool, Davenport was arrested with the rest of his crew while in port at St. Petersburg when the Czarist Russian government acceded to Napoleon's embargo on British vessels (the "Continental System").

Grigory Shyshatsky

On 25 July 1812, the Marshal of France Louis-Nicolas Davout ordered Archbishop Varlaam to induce the population to swear an allegiance oath to Napoleon.

Hugh Alexander Kennedy

In the story "Some Reminiscences of the Life of Augustus Fitzsnob, Esq." (inspired by Thackeray's The Book of Snobs), Kennedy gave the score of a chess game said to be played by Napoleon and Count Bertrand.

I'll Never Heil Again

The winner of that battle is a portrait of Napoleon who grabs the bird from the bewildered Stooges, before running out of his frame.

Icklesham

Strategically located on the River Brede, it was a prime target in the Norman invasion of 1066 (some 700 years later, evacuation plans were prepared in case of an invasion by Napoleon).

Italian Campaign

Second Italian War of Independence, fought by Napoleon III of France and Kingdom of Sardinia against Austria in 1859

James Roche Verling

The first to fill that post was another Irishman, Barry Edward O'Meara, but he was dismissed as it was felt he was too close to Napoleon.

James Summers

The newspaper contained articles on Windsor Castle, Niagara Falls, the death of Napoleon, the Palace of Versailles, and news related to Britain along with advertisements.

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot

He executed a travelling service (c. 1795–1809) for Napoleon and a large table service (1798–1809; Munich, Residenz) for Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1756–1825).

José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca

When Napoleon marched against Spain in 1808, there was a public outcry for Floridablanca to lead the country in resistance.

Kerby, Oregon

An act of the territorial legislature of December 18, 1856 changed the name from "Kirbeyville" to "Napoleon", possibly because of the association of Napoleon with the name Josephine.

Lobau

The Lobau was the site of the Battle of Aspern-Essling in 1809, the first major defeat suffered by Napoléon, which was inflicted on him by an Austrian army led by Archduke Charles, and of the Battle of Wagram, a victory for Napoleon that followed two months later.

Marie-François Auguste de Caffarelli du Falga

Sent as an ambassador to Pope Pius VII, he organised the Pope's trip to France for Napoleon's coronation as emperor.

Medea, the Musical

Before Medea, the Musical he wrote and directed Mary! (a musical take on Mary Stuart), Oresteia: The Musical, Cleopatra: the Musical, and Napoleon: The Camp-Drag-Disco-Musical Extravaganza (in which upon discovering that Joséphine de Beauharnais is actually a man, Napoeon decides he is gay and liberates Europe so that all gays can be free).

Moscow, Ohio

The name may have been given to the town by French immigrants who were veterans of Napoleon's siege of Moscow.

Napoleon Community Schools

Napoleon Community Schools is a public school district located in Napoleon, Michigan, approximately 7 miles South East of Jackson, Michigan.

Overcoat

Overcoats in various forms have been used by militaries since at least the late 18th century, and were especially associated with winter campaigns, such as Napoleon's Russian campaign.

Pierre Claude Pajol

In 1809 he served on the Danube, and in the Russian War of 1812 led a division, and afterwards a corps, of cavalry.

Pimmalione

Pimmalione was specially commissioned by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to show off the talents of two of his favourite singers, the famous castrato Girolamo Crescentini and the contralto Giuseppina Grassini (who had been Napoleon's lover).

Raul Hilberg

Hilberg was amazed by this highly educated, German-Jewish emigrant passing over the genocide of European Jews in order to expound on Napoleon and the occupation of Spain.

Ruins of the Reich

Part 3 - Warsaw Ghetto, Gestapo headquarters, Pawiak Prison, Palmiry massacre site, Oskar Schindler's Deutsche Emalia Fabrika, Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Fermont, Immerhof and Hackenberg on the Maginot Line, Compiègne, tomb of Napoleon and the German submarine pens and Cross-Channel guns in Normandy and the Pas-de-Calais.

Siege of Magdeburg

Siege of Magdeburg (1813–1814), a siege of the German city by forces of the First French Empire during the War of the Sixth Coalition, which ended with Napoleon's abdication

The Blizzard

He rejoined the army (it was now the fatal year of 1812, when Napoleon made his famous attack on Russia), was wounded at the battle of Borodino, and died.

Too Much, Too Soon

It was directed by Art Napoleon and produced by Henry Blanke from a screenplay by Art Napoleon and Jo Napoleon, based on the autobiography by Diana Barrymore and Gerold Frank.

Trajan's Column

In Napoleon's time, a similar column decorated with a spiral of relief sculpture was erected in the Place Vendôme in Paris to commemorate his victory at Austerlitz.

Wedding in Bessarabia

The director of the film is Napoleon Helmis (born in 1969, Topana); he graduated from the National Theater and Film's Art University in Bucharest in 1996, where he currently teaches film direction.

West Riverside, New Orleans

A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Magazine Street to the north, Napoleon Avenue to the east, the Mississippi River to the south and Exposition, Tchoupitoulas and Webster Streets to the west.