Napoleon in 1810 arrived at the top of the greatnesses of man.

Winner of whole Europe, it requested from the emperor of Austria the hand of his Marie-Louise daughter, and it obtained it at once.

It everywhere is obeyed and acclaimed; all seems to smile to him.

Its dynasty seems founded for always; a brilliant court surrounds it and festival "It makes him has the air, Cambacérès writing, to go in the medium of its glory"

In response to the decree of Berlin, England had declared that it would confiscate all the ships which would go to France or in the allied countries of France.

Napoleon with are turn ordered by the decree of Milan to burn all the English goods introduced in smuggling (1810), and one destroyed some for more than one billion, in order to frighten the defrauders.

The situation of England was well close being desperate: it did not find any more to sell its products; its warehouses were encumbered, its closed manufactures and its workmen plunged in misery; but it was impossible that Napoleon forced all Europe a long time to obey to him, and England was saved the day when Russia broke with France and reopened its ports with the English ships.

Napoleon II, born on March 20, 1811, entered the life triumphantly: cent-un blows of gun greeted its birth; it accepted as of the cradle the crown of king de Rome; its baptism celebrated with Notre-Dame had as witnesses the Senate, hundred bishops, twenty cardinals, three kings; and it enthusiasm was immense when Napoleon raised the child above his head to present it at crowd: the same enemies of the emperor were moved, and nobody could have a presentiment of that four years after there would be no more empire, that Napoleon would die captive of the English, and that the king of Rome, removed by the Austrians, would die out to twenty and one years, lieutenant-colonel of an Austrian regiment under the name of duke of Reichstadt.

The family of Bonapartes was originating in Genoa, but it was fixed in Corsica since the seventeenth century, and the father of Napoleon was one of the companions of famous Paoli, which protested the weapons with the hand the transfer of its country in France in 1768. He died a few years before the Revolution.

Of its marriage with Létizia Ramolino it had had five sons: Joseph, Napoleon, Lucien, Louis and Jerome, and three girls: Élisa, Pauline and Caroline.

Napoleon made kings three of his brothers, and his Caroline sister married Murat, which was a king de Naples.