In 1802, at the personal request of Napoleon, Canova returned to Paris to model a bust of the first consul.

Napoleon returned on leave to Ajaccio in October, became a Jacobin and began to work for the revolution.

After the fall of Napoleon I and the Liberal revolution in Portugal, the Portuguese Royals returned to Europe ( 1820 ).

Pichegru managed to escape to the United States and then returned to France where he was eventually executed for plotting against Napoleon.

The disaster at Jena in 1806, in which Napoleon completely crushed the Prussian army, drove him to Königsberg for a time, but he returned to Berlin in 1807 and continued his literary activity.

Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon I, returned from exile in the United Kingdom in 1848 to be elected to the French parliament, and then as " Prince President " in a coup d ' état elected himself Emperor, a move approved later by a large majority of the French electorate.

Napoleon planned to move into Syria but was defeated and he returned to France without his army, which surrendered.

The emerald chalice at Genoa, which was obtained during the Crusades at Caesarea Maritima at great cost, has been less championed as the Holy Grail since an accident on the road, while it was being returned from Paris after the fall of Napoleon, revealed that the emerald was green glass.

After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners.

Works such as the Apollo Belvedere arrived during the Napoleonic Wars, but these pieces were returned after Napoleon I's fall in 1815.

Unable to conquer Acre, Napoleon returned to Egypt, and the death of Al Jazzar in 1804 removed Bashir's principal opponent in the area.

It was also in 1840 that the British government acceded to a French request for Napoleon ’ s body to be returned to France in what became known as the retour des cendres.

Napoleon shortly returned from exile, landing in France on March 1, 1815, marking the War of the Seventh Coalition, heading toward Paris while the Congress of Vienna was sitting.

After Napoleon was defeated in 1815, many of the treasures he had amassed were gradually returned to their owners ( and many were not ).

However, Napoleon managed to escape from Elba and quickly returned to power during the Hundred Days in 1815.

Austria's attack prevented Napoleon from successfully wrapping up operations against British forces by necessitating his departure for Austria, and he never returned to the Peninsular theatre.

Napoleon then left his men and returned to Paris, to prepare the defence against the advancing Russians, and the campaign effectively ended on 14 December 1812, when the last enemy troops left Russia.

When Napoleon abandoned his planned invasion of Britain its propaganda value was lost and it was returned to Bayeux where the council displayed it on a winding apparatus of two cylinders.

Suriname was occupied by the British in 1799, after the Netherlands were incorporated by France, and was returned to the Dutch in 1816, after the defeat of Napoleon.

In 1815, France had returned the Medici Venus to the Italians after it had been looted from Italy by Napoleon Bonaparte.

Consequently the town was included within the Duchy of Warsaw, but upon defeat of Napoleon in Russian in 1812 was occupied by the Russian army and was returned to Prussia in the 1815 Congress of Vienna.

The remains of Napoleon I had been returned to France in December 1840, at the time of the July Monarchy.

At the beginning of the Hundred Days, deposed Emperor Napoleon I returned triumphantly to Paris from Elba.

This notion of the General Will gave rise to the Commune of Paris in the Revolution and later brought Napoleon to dictatorship.

In 1815 he was commissioned by the Pope to superintend the transmission from Paris of those works of art which had formerly been conveyed thither under the direction of Napoleon.

The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.

Laying the foundations alone took two years and, in 1810, when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with his bride Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria, he had a wooden mock-up of the completed arch constructed.

After graduation and a brief sojourn at the Military School of Paris Napoleon applied for second-lieutenancy in the artillery regiment of La Fère at Valence and after a time was given the position.

Returning from Sardinia Napoleon with his family and all his supporters were instrumental in getting Paoli denounced at the National Convention in Paris in 1793.

Baron Haussmann, a long-time prefect of Bordeaux, used Bordeaux's 18th century big-scale rebuilding as a model when he was asked by Emperor Napoleon III to transform a then still quasi-medieval Paris into a " modern " capital that would make France proud.

* 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.

File: Jacques-Louis_David_006. jpg | The Coronation of Napoleon, ( 1806 ), Musée du Louvre, Paris

One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.

Allied armies invaded France in early 1814, Paris fell, and in April Napoleon surrendered.

French Emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner and a republic hastily proclaimed in Paris.

The era saw great industrialization, urbanization ( including the massive rebuilding of Paris by Baron Haussmann ) and economic growth, but Napoleon III's foreign policies were not so successful.

In the middle of the 19th century — a time of change, as Emperor Napoleon III rebuilt Paris and waged war — the Académie des Beaux-Arts dominated French art.

A significant event of 1863 was the Salon des Refusés, created by Emperor Napoleon III to display all of the paintings rejected by the Paris Salon.

* 1812 – Claude François de Malet, a French general, begins a conspiracy to overthrow Napoleon Bonaparte, claiming that the Emperor died in Russia and that he is now the commandant of Paris.

In March 1800, Hermann alerted the French scientist George Cuvier to the existence of Collini's fossil, believing that it had been captured by the occupying armies of Napoleon and sent to the French collections in Paris ( and perhaps to Cuvier himself ) as war booty ; at the time special French political commissars systematically seized art treasures and objects of scientific interest.

Led by Mikhail Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly, the Russian army ousted Napoleon from the country and drove through Europe in the war of the Sixth Coalition, finally entering Paris.

Following praise of St Helena ’ s coffee given by Napoleon during his exile on the island, the product enjoyed a brief popularity in Paris during the years after his death.