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Napoleon crossing the Grand Saint-Bernard (1801), painting by Jacques-Louis David.
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Napoleon crossing the Grand Saint-Bernard (1801), painting by Jacques-Louis David.

Napoleon and the aristocracy

01 October 2021 Article
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Himself from a family of minor Corsican nobility, Napoleon attached great importance to the old aristocracy; he admired it, needed it and relied on it, as the quotations below testify. " I needed an...
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