Napoleon I, Emperor of France

Standard Name: Napoleon I,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoleon Bonaparte

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Literary Setting Jane Austen
This fragment depicts a seaside resort, often identified as Brighton, under development after Napoleon 's first defeat had freed the south coast from the threat of invasion, but before the war returned with his...
Occupation Beryl Bainbridge
BB was a striking and accomplished visual artist, though she tended to speak slightingly of her own work. Early in her marriage to Austin Davies she exhibited her work alongside his.
King, Brendan. Beryl Bainbridge. Bloomsbury .
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She began a...
Material Conditions of Writing Anna Letitia Barbauld
At this date, though the war against France was, from a British point of view, going well, Britain was suffering terribly from its prosecution. Napoleon had not yet swung the balance against himself by invading...
Textual Production Anna Letitia Barbauld
During the next few years ALB drafted several poems which she left unpublished: poems on public affairs instead of, like most of her earlier unpublished verse, on private topics. News of Napoleon 's retreat from...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Brontë
Patrick Brontë was an Irish protestant from a large, respectable farming family of limited means. He took to books from an early age, opened a school for the gentry at the age of sixteen, became...
Travel Frances Burney
FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
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Intertextuality and Influence Jane Welsh Carlyle
In her youth Jane Welsh composed verse translations from texts by Goethe and Pierre Cardenal , and of Chateaubriand 's Atala. She also wrote a number of original short poems; two of those that...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Charles
The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Bride Danescombe opens her narrative of her life with...
Textual Production Joseph Conrad
The year after JC 's death there appeared his Suspense, an unfinished historical novel set during the Napoleon ic wars.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
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Ehrsam, Theodore G. A Bibliography of Joseph Conrad. Scarecrow Press.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Louisa Stuart Costello
In this work LSC displays meticulous attention to historical detail,
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 130
discussing figures connected with French history from Richard the Lion-Hearted to Napoleon . A modern critic suggests on the one hand that it...
Travel Anne Damer
In the first winter of her widowhood AD went abroad to study art. Later she escaped newspaper harrassment by travelling to Italy: Rome and Florence (where she met Walpole's friend Horace Mann ). This voyage...
Textual Production Anne Damer
AD 's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they...
Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD edited and published The Nelson Touch, a selection of letters from a national hero; she noted parallels between the military state of Britain confronting Napoleon and confronting Hitler .
British Book News. British Council.
(1943): 172
Textual Production Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Much of SACD 's short fiction deals with adventure and travel. He wrote seventeen short stories about a French brigadier in Napoleon 's army, Etienne Gerard, which took over from the Sherlock Holmes sequence in...
Family and Intimate relationships Grace Elliott
In her earliest years in Paris she was the mistress first of the comte d'Artois (who much later reigned as Charles X ) and then of the duc de Chartres (later duc d'Orléans , later...

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1478: The medieval institution of the Inquisition...

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1478

The medieval institution of the Inquisition was revived as the Spanish Inquisition at the request of the Spanish royal couple Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon .

4 February 1794: Slavery was abolished throughout France and...

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4 February 1794

Slavery was abolished throughout France and its colonies. From this year until 1804 (two years after Napoleon re-instituted slavery under French jurisdiction), the struggle for abolition virtually lapsed in England.

5 October 1795: A Royalist insurrection in Paris was crushed...

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5 October 1795

A Royalist insurrection in Paris was crushed by troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte .

27 March 1796: Napoleon took command of one of the French...

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27 March 1796

Napoleon took command of one of the French armies, the Army of Italy, at Nice.

15 May 1796: Napoleon's army entered Milan, on its revolutionary...

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15 May 1796

Napoleon 's army entered Milan, on its revolutionary mission to liberate Italy from Austrian and other royal rulers.

26 February 1797: The Bank of England, alarmed by a run on...

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26 February 1797

The Bank of England , alarmed by a run on gold prompted by fears of invasion from Napoleonic France, prohibited payments in cash: in May this prohibition was enforced by legislation establishing a period of Restriction.

1-3 August 1798: In the Battle of the Nile (also known as...

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1-3 August 1798

In the Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir (or Abu Qir) Bay), the British fleet under Nelson attacked and in large part destroyed the fleet of revolutionary France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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23 August 1799: Napoleon left his command in Egypt and headed...

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23 August 1799

Napoleon left his command in Egypt and headed for Paris, leaving behind him most of the huge haul of the country's artefacts which had already been packed for shipping to France.

14 October 1799: Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended...

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14 October 1799

Napoleon reached Paris, where he intended to seize power.

9-10 November 1799: Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France,...

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9-10 November 1799

Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France, overturning the Directory in a coup d'état.

25 December 1799: In France the Constitution of the Year VIII...

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25 December 1799

In France the Constitution of the Year VIII was implemented. This constitution set up a Council of State and a Consulate headed by a First Consul, Napoleon Bonaparte . It was completed on 22 Frimaire...

14 June 1800: In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon...

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14 June 1800

In the War of the Second Coalition, Napoleon (recently appointed First Consul of France) defeated the Austrian Empire at the battle of Marengo in Northern Italy.

17 May 1803: Britain declared war on France again, after...

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17 May 1803

Britain declared war on France again, after only just over a year's peace, in response to the expansionism of Napoleon .

July 1803: An invasion scare gripped England. Young...

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July 1803

An invasion scare gripped England. Young men joined volunteer regiments ready for a landing and occupation by Napoleon 's troops—though at the same time people continued to plan their lives normally.

23 July 1803: Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a...

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23 July 1803

Irish nationalist Robert Emmet mounted a rising which was designed to seize Dublin Castle and take the Viceroy hostage.

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