USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Military General Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself the emperor of France in 1804.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 18 May, 1804, after much political horse trading, the French Senate proclaimed Bonaparte Emperor Napoleon I.

Detailed explanation-3: -On the 2nd of December 1804 Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. According to legend, during the coronation he snatched the crown from the hands of Pope Pius VII and crowned himself, thus displaying his rejection of the authority of the Pontiff.

Detailed explanation-4: -Napoleon’s elevation to emperor was overwhelmingly approved by the French citizens in the French constitutional referendum of 1804. Among Napoleon’s motivations for being crowned were to gain prestige in international royalist and Catholic circles and to lay the foundation for a future dynasty.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head.