Empire of Napoleon to his apogee (1810 to 1811)
Chart Alain Houot
The career of Napoleon (Ajaccio, 1769 - Grey waxbill, 1821) - first
consul at thirty years, emperor with thirty-five, off-set in Sainte-Hélène with forty six - is marked by a relative brevity which has equal only frantic rate on which it was carried out.
Emperor of the French, his history necessarily merges with that of the Consulate and the First Empire, but it is also that of a success out of the commun run born of the Revolution. The legend will very quickly give a second life to that which, a time, dominated Europe.