He spent his younger years working at a pâtisserie until being discovered by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who would later cook for the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

He was a professional soldier who spent a considerable part of his life fighting against Napoleon.

During the dozen or more years he spent in Germany he was entrusted with several honourable and difficult missions, which brought him into contact with the courts of Dresden, Vienna, Munich and Württemberg, as well as with Napoleon I of France.

Louis Bonaparte's early career was spent in the Army, and he served with Napoleon in Egypt.

Louis XVIII spent twenty-three years in exile, from 1791 to 1814, during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, and again in 1815, for 111 days, upon the return of Napoleon I from Elba.

After six months as a prisoner in Germany Napoleon spent the last few years of his life in exile in England, with Eugénie and their only son.

After the French Revolution, it was moved to the Louvre, but spent a brief period in the bedroom of Napoleon in the Tuileries Palace.

Off Rochefort, from the island of Île-d ' Aix where he had spent several days hoping to flee to America, Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to Captain F. L. Maitland aboard HMS Bellerophon, on 17 July 1815, ending the " Hundred Days ".

* Joseph Bonaparte, the older brother of Napoleon, spent part of his exile living in the town near Natural Bridge.

After the conference, Napoleon asked Davout to stay on and the two spent a long time planning Davout's difficult and complex attack on the fortified position at Markgrafneusiedl, an action which the Emperor saw as decisive for the battle to come.

A notorious visitor was Napoleon Bonaparte, who, as a prisoner on HMS Bellerophon, spent several days off Brixham waiting to be taken to exile on St. Helena.

He spent the fifteen years after the fall of Napoleon without employment, returning to agriculture and developing his home district of Périgord.

Napoleon spent only nine months and 21 days in uneasy retirement on Elba ( 1814 – 1815 ), watching events in France with great interest as the Congress of Vienna gradually gathered.

Napoleon spent the remainder of the year consolidating his position in Egypt.

He spent several years travelling and making acquaintance with famous people, including the future Napoleon III of France.

In 1815, from July 12 to 15, Napoleon also spent his last days in France at Ile d ' Aix, after the defeat at Waterloo, in an attempt to force a Royal Navy blockade to escape to the United States.

In 1804, Emperor Napoleon I spent some time in the town, which in the meantime had acquired a municipal administration run according to French law.

Nearly two years were spent here but with Napoleon planning and equipping his armed forces for an invasion of Britain, the campaign which was to decide the fate of Europe and the command of the sea was starting.

At Maison Laval on rue Rabelais, a townhouse built at the end of the 18th Century, Emperor Napoleon 1st and his wife, Joséphine, spent the night of August 7 and 8, 1808.

Meanwhile, Napoleon spent the night of 29 / 30 October at the Isemburg castle, near Gelnhausen and received detailed intelligence about the Austro-Bavarian preparations, which confirmed that the enemy was intending to make a stand.

Napoleon Bonaparte spent a night in the Collegiate between 8 and 9 June 1807.

In the family circle, she spent most time with her ​​ favorite grandchild, Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, who later became in the wife of her arch-enemy Napoleon.

Stein now spent in retirement the months during which Napoleon completed the ruin of Prussia.

Napoleon spent the remaining six years of his life under British imprisonment on the island of St. Helena.

The castle, stripped of its furniture and ornaments during the Revolution, was left abandoned, with only Napoleon briefly staying one night there and then leaving the castle for good.

Napoleon is in a happy mood compared to the night before but now the commander of artillery brings bad news.

After the failed Malet coup of October 1812, Napoleon hastened his return to France and reunited with his wife on the night of December 18.

In the night before the day of battle, Napoleon set out with his entourage to review the forward positions.

That night Bennigsen decided to retreat, leaving Napoleon in possession of a snowy battlefield covered with thousands of corpses and many more wounded.

Many people believe that the start of the battle was delayed for several hours as Napoleon waited until the ground had dried from the previous night ’ s rain.

Napoleon received reinforcements during the night, including units of the Imperial Guard, two cavalry formations, and one division from VIIth Corps commanded by Marshal Oudinot, giving 28, 000 total troops.

The Battle of Wagram began after Napoleon swiftly took the bulk of these forces across the Danube during the night of 4 / 5 July and attacked the 145, 000-men strong Austrian army.

Napoleon was expecting reinforcements: the French XI Corps under Marmont, the divisions of Broussier and Pacthod from the " Army of Italy ", as well as the Bavarian division under Wrede, which were approaching the battlefield that night.

According to the founding legend of the annual giant Easter omelette of Bessières, Haute-Garonne, when Napoleon Bonaparte and his army were traveling through southern France, they decided to rest for the night near the town of Bessières.

On the night of 10 August 1792, Napoleon watches impassively as mob rule takes over Paris and a man is hung by revolutionaries.

Just before leaving Paris, Napoleon enters the empty National Assembly hall at night, and sees the spirits of those who had set the Revolution in motion.

On the night of 21 / 22 July 1807 Canning received intelligence directly from Tilsit ( where Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I of Russia were negotiating a treaty ) which appeared " to rest on good authority " that Napoleon had proposed to the Tsar a great naval combination against Britain, of which Denmark and Portugal would be members.

The start of the battle was delayed for several hours as Napoleon waited until the ground had dried from the previous night ’ s rain.

He refused to publish the source because he said it would endanger their lives During the night of 21 / 22 July Canning received intelligence from Tilsit that Napoleon had tried to persuade Alexander I of Russia to form a maritime league with Denmark and Portugal against Britain.

After a successful crossing, Napoleon ordered an attack along the entire line so as to prevent the Austrians from escaping during the night.

Napoleon has an unusual variation on the idea, where every third player turn is ' night turn ' where combat is not allowed.

At around of 18 June 1815 Grouchy reported to Napoleon that the Prussians had left Tourinnes by marching all night.