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House of Bonaparte
imperial and royal European dynasty / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The House of Bonaparte was an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a Corsican military leader who rose to power and transformed the French Republic into the French Empire. The dynasty ruled from 1804 to 1815 and again from 1852 to 1870.
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