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  2. First French Empire - Wikipedia

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    The First French Empire [4] [a] or French Empire (French: Empire français; Latin: Imperium Francicum) and also known as Napoleonic France, was the empire ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte, who established French hegemony over much of continental Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

  3. History of France - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Napoleonic France (1799–1815) subsection. 7.1 Coalitions formed against Napoleon. ... France's population was 13 million people in 1484 and 20 million in ...

  4. Paris under Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    Between 1801 and 1811, the population of Paris grew from 546,856 to 622,636, nearly the population before the French Revolution, and by 1817 it reached 713,966. During Napoleon's reign, Paris suffered from war and blockade, but retained its position as a European capital of fashion, art, science, education, and commerce.

  5. French Imperial Army (1804–1815) - Wikipedia

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    The French "Levée en masse" method of conscription brought around 2,300,000 French men into the Army between the period of 1804 and 1813. [4] To give an estimate of how much of the population this was, modern estimates range from 7 to 8% of the population of France proper, while the First World War used around 20 to 21%.

  6. Napoleonic era - Wikipedia

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    The Napoleonic era is a period in the history of France and Europe. ... The Napoleonic era from 1799 to 1815 was marked by Napoleon Bonaparte's rise to power in ...

  7. Demographics of France - Wikipedia

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    Between the years 2010–17, the population of France grew from 64,613,000 to 66,991,000 (i.e. about 2.4 million people in a span of 7 years), making France one of the fastest-growing countries in Europe. The population of France is growing by 1,000,000 people every three years- an average annual increase of 340,000 people, or +0.6%. [7]

  8. Napoleonic Wars - Wikipedia

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    In France, the Napoleonic Wars are generally integrated with the French Revolutionary Wars: Les guerres de la Révolution et de l'Empire. [ 50 ] German historiography may count the War of the Second Coalition (1798/9–1801/2), during which Napoleon had seized power, as the Erster Napoleonischer Krieg ("First Napoleonic War").

  9. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    At the close of the Napoleonic Wars, most of France's colonies were restored to it by Britain, ... by 1763 New France only had a population of some 65,000.