Characters of the First Empire

Emperor of the French

Napoleon Bonaparte

Empress of the French

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Empress of the French

Marie Louise of Austria

King of Rome

Napoleon II

King of Naples, then of Spain

Joseph Bonaparte

French prince

Lucien Bonaparte

King of Holland

Louis Bonaparte

King of Westphalia

Jerome Bonaparte

Queen of Naples

Caroline Bonaparte

Princess Borghese

Pauline Bonaparte

Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Elisa Bonaparte

Lawyer, royal assessor at Ajaccio, Corsican gentleman

Charles Bonaparte

Madame Mère

Letizia Bonaparte

Viceroy of Italy

Eugène de Beauharnais

Queen of Holland

Hortense de Beauharnais

Grand Duchess of Baden

Stéphanie de Beauharnais

Marshal of the Empire, Prince of Eckmühl

Louis-Nicolas Davout

Marshal of the Empire, Prince of the Moskova

Michel Ney

Marshal of the Empire, King of Naples

Joachim Murat

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Prince of Benevento, diplomat

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

Political theorist, deputy, Director, Consul

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

Pope, signatory of the Concordat, political hostage of Napoleon

Pius VII

Minister of Police, Duke of Otranto, president of the provisional government (1815)

Joseph Fouché

Second Consul, Archchancellor of the Empire, principal architect of the Civil Code (1804)

Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès

Duke of Bassano, Secretary-General of the Government then Minister for Foreign Affairs and Secretary of State (1811–1813)

Hugues-Bernard Maret

Private secretary to Napoleon (1802–1813), Baron of the Empire; then secretary of the orders of Empress Marie Louise

Claude-François de Méneval

First valet de chambre to Napoleon (1806–1814); memorialist (Memoirs, 1830)

Louis Constant Wairy

Marshal of the Empire, Prince of Neuchâtel and of Wagram, major-general of the Grande Armée (1805–1814)

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Marshal of the Empire, Prince of Essling

André Masséna

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Montebello

Jean Lannes

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Dalmatia

Jean-de-Dieu Soult

Marshal of the Empire, King of Sweden and Norway (Charles XIV John)

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Castiglione

Charles Augereau

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Danzig

François Joseph Lefebvre

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Treviso

Édouard Mortier

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Istria

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Reggio

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Taranto

Jacques Macdonald

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Ragusa

Auguste de Marmont

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Bellune

Claude Victor-Perrin

Marshal of the Empire, Count of Gouvion Saint-Cyr

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

Marshal of the Empire, Polish prince

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Albufera

Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Conegliano

Bon-Adrien Jannot de Moncey

Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Valmy

François Christophe Kellermann

Marshal of the Empire, Count then Duke of Grand-Fayt

Dominique-Catherine de Pérignon

Marshal of the Empire, Count Sérurier

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Marshal of the Empire, Count Jourdan

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Marshal of the Empire, Count of Brune

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune

Marshal of the Empire, Count of Grouchy

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Divisional general, Grand Marshal of the Palace, Duke of Friuli

Géraud Christophe Michel Duroc de Troël

Master of the Horse, ambassador to Saint Petersburg, Minister for Foreign Affairs

Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt

Chemist, industrialist, Minister of the Interior (1800–1804)

Jean-Antoine Chaptal, Count of Chanteloup

Lawyer, co-drafter of the Civil Code, Minister of Religious Affairs

Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis

Emperor of all Russia (1801–1825)

Alexander I Pavlovich, Emperor of all Russia

Last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1792–1806), Emperor of Austria (1804–1835)

Francis II / Francis I, Emperor of Austria

British general, victor of Waterloo, Prime Minister

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Prussian general, field marshal on coalition battlefields

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prince of Wahlstatt

Russian field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall), commander-in-chief in 1812

Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov