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Coronation of Napoleon

2 décembre 1804

In Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French in the presence of Pope Pius VII. Josephine was crowned Empress. The ceremony sealed the fusion of revolutionary legitimacy and monarchical tradition.
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