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The First Empire — The Empire of Napoleon I (1804–1815)
The imperial state founded in 1804, at its zenith around 1811 and brought down at Waterloo. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded sovereign office of the First Empire: imperial throne of the French (from 1804 to 1815).
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