
Information
Name: First French Empire
Type: Polity
Nation: france
Start: 1804
End: 1815
First French Empire: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
Because of the instability and violence (for example the Terror period) that plagued the First French Republic, Napoleon abolished the Republican Organs and established the French Empire. Napoleon's Empire would rule over Europe for its decade of existence, through direct or indirect rule. Napoleon was finally defeated by the Seventh Coalition and the Monarchy was re-established.