Fancy Hats for Fancy People
A history of the crown
On December 2, 1804, the most powerful man in Europe made it official.
Napoleon Bonaparte had, by age 35, climbed through the ranks of the revolutionary French military, fought off the threat of invasion, carried out a coup to make himself “consul,” and then established a dictatorship by becoming a consul for life. After surviving a couple of attempts o…
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