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Crown of Napoleon
The
Crown of Napoleon
was a
coronation crown
manufactured for Emperor
Napoleon I of the French
and used in his
coronation
on December 2, 1804. Napoleon called his new crown the
Crown of Charlemagne
, the name of the ancient royal coronation crown of France that had been destroyed in the
French Revolution
, a name which allowed him to compare himself to the famed
mediaeval
monarch
Charlemagne
, King of the
Franks
and Holy Roman Emperor.
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