Excerpt from Napoleon and His Coronation His brothers unknown to the nation - Different forms of hereditary succession - It is always direct, from father or the mother to son or daughter - Adoption It only creates further difficulties - The Imperial and Royal houses - Similarity between them as established by Napoleon - Negotiations with the Count of Pro vence - Can it be said that Napoleon was ignorant of them -proofs to the contrary - Letter of Lucchsini to his Court - Napoleon certainly aware of Talleyrand's negotiations - His dissatisfaction with the Popular right - A desire for consecration and ancestors Charlemagne - Honours decreed to be paid to him The column and the statues - The Carlovingian titles The Imperial coat of arms - The eagle - The bees - La Champ de Mai - Open-air ceremonies not very success ful in the nineteenth century - The proclamation of the Empire - Napoleon determines that the opening cere mony shall take place in an enclosed or covered place The I nvalides church, the temple of Mars - Distribution of Stars of the Legion - The only ceremony typical of the times and the career of Napoleon - Napoleon not satisfied with it - His idea of a Coronation - The dresses - Search for a consecrator-the Pope - The crowning of the Carlovingian Emperors by the Pope The opinion of the Abbe de Mably - Doctrine of Divine right - Did Napoleon desire it as the basis of his Empire - The advantages to be gained by being crowned by the Pope - Advantages that the Church would gain - Napoleon goes to aix-la-chapelle, near to the tomb of Charlemagne, to await the answer of Pius VII. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.