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| Emperor of the French King of Italy Mediator of the Swiss Confederation Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine | |||||
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| Reign | 20 March 1804 – 6 April 1814 1 March 1815 – 22 June 1815 | ||||
| Coronation | 2 December 1804 | ||||
| Predecessor | French Consulate (Executive of the French First Republic, with Napoleon as First Consul); Previous ruling Monarch : Louis XVI as King of the French (died 1793) | ||||
| Successor | Louis XVIII (de facto) Napoleon II (de jure) | ||||
| Burial | Les Invalides, Paris | ||||
| Spouse | Joséphine de Beauharnais Marie Louise of Austria | ||||
| Issue | Napoleon II of France | ||||
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| Imperial House | Bonaparte | ||||
| Father | Carlo Buonaparte | ||||
| Mother | Letizia Ramolino | ||||
Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte French pronunciation: [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) later known as Emperor Napoleon I, and previously Napoleone di Buonaparte, was a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century.
Born in Corsica and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France, Bonaparte rose to prominence under the First French Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later he crowned himself Emperor of the French. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, he turned the armies of the French Empire against every major European power and dominated continental Europe through a series of military victories. He maintained France's sphere of influence by the formation of extensive alliances and the appointment of friends and family members to rule other European countries as French client states.