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The Bank of France: the rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs entrancein 1805

Engraving after Courvoisier. The Banque de France was created in 1800. See the article by Jacques Wolff “Les insuffisantes finances napoléoniennes. Une des causes de l'échec de la tentative d'hégémonie européenne (1799-1814)” in the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien, n°397.
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Visconti presenting his project for the completion of the Louvre to the Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress, 1853

First exhibited in the Salon of 1866.See the article by Georges Poisson “Quand Napoléon III bâtissait le Grand Louvre” in the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien n°393.
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Comte Louis-Nicolas Dubois (1758-1847) (detail)

Dubois was first ever préfet de police from 25 October 1800 to 14 October 1810.
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The assassination attempt of rue Saint-Niçaise

This assassination attempt took place on 24 December 1800 at 8-30pm. The carriage taking Bonaparte to the Opéra to hear the first performance of Haydn's Creation had passed twenty minutes earlier. See the article by Jean Tulard “Les attentats contre Napoléon” in the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien, n°391.
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The rue Saint-Niçaise assassination attempt

This assassination attempt took place on 24 December 1800 at 8-30pm. The carriage taking Bonaparte to the Opéra to hear the first performance of Haydn's Creation had passed twenty minutes earlier. See the article by Jean Tulard “Les attentats contre Napoléon” in the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien, n°391.
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Colonel François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773-1827)

Sub-lieutenant in the Dragoons in 1792, Brigadier in chief 1797, Fournier-Sarlovèze took part in the second Italian campaign. Suspected of plotting against Bonaparte, he was arrested in 1802. Reinstated in the Armée de Naples,he played a part in the battles of Eylau and Friedland. Promoted to Brigadier General and made Baron of the Empire in […]
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Gabriel Viscount Donnadieu

Donnadieu was implicated in a conspiracy against Bonaparte in 1802.
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Gardes d’honneur of the town of Strasbourg

The Gardes d'honneur were the source of a plot to against Napoleon in 1813. See the article by Jean Tulard “Les attentats contre Napoléon” in the Revue du souvenir napoléonien n°391.
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The marquis de Mombreuil

Maubreuil served in the armée de Vendée and was ostler to Jérôme Bonaparte. At the beginning of 1814, he was ordered to assassinate Napoléon. See the article by Jean Tulard "Les attentats contre Napoléon" in the Revue du souvenir napoléonien n°391.
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Baron Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755-1821)

The Napoleon's senior doctor shown here as president of the Société Médicale d'Emulation. See the article by Jean-François Lemaire “L'émulatrice faculté de médecine de Paris sous l'Empire” in the Revue du Souvenir napoléonien” n°394.