Who Said What
Napoleon
"The most virtuous woman is the one who produces the most children."
The rate of inflation was 3000% prior to the creation of _________
Jacques Louis David
The painter who immortalised the crossing of the Alps and his Corronation
Corronation 02/12/1804
What and when?
Corsica
Napoleon was born on the island of ________
Hitler
Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.
A secular order for bravery (military/civil).
What was the legion de honuer?
10,000
Approximately how many of Napoleon's 450-600 thousand strong force that invaded Russia in 1812 survived?
Hanibal and Charlemagne, crossed the Alps at the St Bernard pass into Italy.
What is he doing? Who else did the same?
28
At what age did he end the war of the 1st Coalition?
Undermining aristocratic privilege
Loyalty to the Emperor
What function did the legion de honeur serve in Napoleon's France?
Austerlitz
Which Battle establish French control of most of Germany and force the Russia into Poland?
Berezina. Escaping from Russia, but basically with no army.
What is happening in the painting? Why is it significant?
Mathematics and History
His favourite subjects at school?
Winston Churchill
He was, "The greatest man of action in Europe since Julius Caesar."
A gallery of art, much stolen, that was designed to make Paris the cultural centre of Europe.
What was the significance of the Louvre?
Tilsit
The treaty after the Freidland/ Polish campaign of 1807 that divided Europe between France and Russia.
Pin it on worthy recipients uniforms for morale
What did Napoleon regularly do with this award? Why?
Wrote about it and "tried to save her"
He famously lost his virginity to a prostitute in Paris at 20 years of age. What did he do next?
The Duke of Wellington
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
Over 40
Number of nations today that still use a form of the Code Napoleon as the basis of their legal system?
Approximate answer
Evaluate the accuracy of the claims made
Our cavalry was dismounted to the degree that we had to reunite the officers who had kept their horses so as to form four companies of a hundred and fifty men each. The generals performed the functions of captains, and the colonels those of subordinates. This sacred squadron, commanded by general Grouchy, and under the orders of the King of Naples [Murat], did not lose sight of the Emperor in all its movements.
The health of His Majesty has never been better.
Buried on St Helena. Returned to France in 1840. Entombed at Les Invalids.
What happened to his dead body after he died in 1821?