Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French at a lavish ceremony in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. This act established the First French Empire and marked the culmination of his rise from a military general to the leader of France, a position he held from 1804 to 1814 and again briefly in 1815.
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