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Close-upA close-up on: Queen HortenseQueen Hortense, Duchess of Saint Leu, was the daughter of Joséphine de Beauharnais, the wife of King Louis of Holland, and mother of Napoleon III.
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Close-upA close-up on: Abd el-KaderAbd el-Kader is considered to be one of the founders of the modern Algerian state as well as an important figure in east-west rapprochement. At the mid-point of the 19th century, he and Napoleon III were the most important figures in their respective countries, Algeria…
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Close-upA close-up on: the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine, 12 July, 1806After having sketched out his ideas regarding France and German lands in a letter to Talleyrand (Minister of Foreign Affairs) dated October 1805, Napoleon went further in the spring of 1806, creating a confederation of small western German states grouped around the three “principal” allies,…
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Close-upA close-up on: the epoch-making Battle of AusterlitzOn 2 December 1805, north of Vienna in the present-day Czech Republic, the Austro-Russian army was completely destroyed and the Russians were made to retreat to the East. This great victory closed the German campaign.
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Close-upA close-up on: the Flaubert Madame Bovary trial7 February, 1857, saw the end of the trial involving the writer Gustave Flaubert, the owner, and the printer of La Revue de Paris. The three men had been accused of insulting public morals and offending decent manners by the serialised publication of the novel…
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Close-upA close-up on: the Prussian CampaignThe twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, 14 October, 1806.
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Close-upA close-up on: Napoleon’s entry into Berlin, 27 October, 1806On 27 October, 1806, after the victories at Iéna and Auerstädt two weeks earlier, Napoleon rode in triumph into Berlin passing under the Brandenburg Gate.
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Close-upA close-up on: the "Continental system or Blockade"On 21 November, 1806, Napoleon decreed, from his Palace in Berlin, a blockade of the British Isles and forbade all British goods and commerce entering the continent. This came to be known as the ‘continental’ blockade since de facto most of the European continent was…
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Close-upA close-up on: Tilsit (July 1807)The Grande Armée’s perfect victory over the Russian Army at Friedland had brought the Polish Campaign to an end. After an armistice signed on 20 June, the Czar Alexander I and the Emperor Napoleon I signed a peace treaty on 7 July, 1807, in the…
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Close-upA close-up on: the Polish campaign, Friedland (14 June, 1807)14 June, 1807, was the day on which Napoleon got his decisive battle in which he drove Alexander to defeat and to the negotiating table.