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Étienne Maurice Gérard
Person…a talent for organization matched with great courage. He was listed by Napoleon as one of his best commanders.

Jean-de-Dieu Soult
Person…commander and statesman. He was a Marshal of the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, and served three times as President of the Council of Ministers of France. Soult is referred to as one of the outstanding military commanders of the…

Jules Baroche
Person…Baroche was a French statesman, who served as minister in several of Napoleon III's governments. He was Minister of the Interior from 15 March 1850 to 24 January 1851, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 April 1851 to 26 October 1851,…

Pope Pius VII
Person…Pius at first attempted to take a cautious approach in dealing with Napoleon. With him he signed the Concordat of 1801, through which he succeeded in guaranteeing religious freedom for Catholics living in France, and was present at…

Prince Friedrich Franz Xaver of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Person…Second Battle of Bassano and the Battle of Caldiero (1796). During the Napoleonic Wars, he led a division in 1805 and an army corps in 1809. He was Proprietor (Inhaber) of an Austrian cavalry regiment from 1802 to 1844.

Abraham Furtado
Person…president of the Assembly of Notables and later served as secretary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grand Sanhedrin; a Jewish high court convened in Paris.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Person…spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis Philippe I. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become…

Henri Bourassa
PersonJoseph-Napoléon-Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian political leader and publisher. In 1899, Bourassa was outspoken against the British government's request for Canada to send a militia to fight for Britain in the Second Boer War.…

Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg
Person…by princely decree. She managed to keep the principality independent during the Napoleonic Wars. She wrote a constitution, in which the power of the estates was reduced. In the collective historical consciousness of the Lippe population,…

Pope Pius VI
Person…Catholic Church in France that resulted from it. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Papal army and occupied the Papal States in 1796. In 1798, upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power, Pius was taken prisoner…

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