Napoleon Bonaparte (French: Napoléon Bonaparte [napoleɔ̃ bɔnɑpaʁt]) (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. His legal reform, the Napoleonic Code, has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, but he is best remembered for his role in the wars led against France by a series of coalitions, the so-called Napoleonic Wars. He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed Ancien Régime. Due to his success in these wars, often against numerically superior enemies, he is generally regarded as one of the greatest military commanders of all time and his campaigns are studied at military academies throughout much of the world.
Napoleon was born in Corsica to parents of noble Genoese ancestry, and trained as an artillery officer in mainland France. He rose to prominence under the French First Republic and led successful campaigns against the First and Second Coalitions arrayed against France. In 1799, he staged a coup d'état and installed himself as First Consul; five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. In the first decade of the 19th century, the French Empire under Napoleon engaged in a series of conflicts—the Napoleonic Wars—involving every major European power.
When the lights go off the battle is on.
[from trailer]::Amelia Earhart: [in awe] Great Gatsby!
[from trailer]::Larry Daley: This is the Smithsonian! This is the big leagues!
Jedediah: Well, lookee here. If it ain't Mr. Big-in-the-Britches himself, come back in time to see us off?::Larry Daley: Yeah, Jed, I heard. Look, I don't even know how this happened.::[Larry's answers his cellphone]::Jedediah: Yeah. Yeah, real mystery how this happened. Maybe the answer's on that magic buzzin' box there in your hand! You weren't here, Gigantor! That's how it happened! Ain't no mystery!::Octavius: The fact is, Larry, there's no one else here to speak on our behalf during business hours.::Easter Island Head: None, none, dum, dum.
[from trailer]::General George Armstrong Custer: Any questions [Sacajawea raises her hand] [Mumbles her name]::Sacajawea: That is not my name.::General George Armstrong Custer: Sacajamea?::Sacajawea: No.::General George Armstrong Custer: Sac, Sack-in-a-box?::Sacajawea: No.::General George Armstrong Custer: Cinco De Mayo. Mission Accomplished
Larry Daley: Sorry. Last time I checked, I thought we lived in a free country, so...::Brandon: No, we don't.::Larry Daley: No?::Brandon: It's the United States of "Don't Touch That Thing Right in Front of You."
Kah Mun Rah: [From trailer] [Confronting Vader] Is that you breathing? Because I can't hear myself think! There's too much going on here; you're asthmatic, you're a robot. And why the cape? Are we going to the opera? I don't think so.
Amelia Earhart: It's a matter of life and death!::The Thinker: I'll tell you what's a matter of life and death, that beautiful lady over there.::[statue of Aphrodite giggles]::The Thinker: Hey baby, check out the gun show goin' on over here. BOOM, BANG! Firepower!
Easter Island Head: Did any of you Dum-Dums bring me Gum Gum?
Larry Daley: Sorry, I don't mean to stare. You just look very familiar.::Woman: I get that a lot.
Jedediah: I didn't call you because we were in trouble... okay, we were in a pickle. But it wouldn't be the first time I had to fast talk my way out of a jam! I called you because you needed us.
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In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia's client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia. This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feuding since the head of one shot the head of the other twenty years before. There are hopes of a reconciliation through a marriage of Pan Tadeusz, a Soplica, whose father, the murderer, is in hiding somewhere, and Zosia, a teen-aged girl, a Horeszko who lives in the household of Pan's uncle. Other cross-currents - of love, family, politics, village traditions, land reform, and what it means to be Polish - give the film texture. It's an exile's story.
Keywords: 1810s, 19th-century, based-on-novel, battle, invasion, lithuania, napoleon-bonaparte, poland, year-1811, year-1812
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1816. Après Waterloo, Louis XVIII se réinstalle sur le trône de France. De Rochefort part pour le Sénégal la frégate "La Méduse", sous les ordres du commandant Chaumareys, avec à son bord le futur gouverneur du Sénégal, Schmaltz, accompagné de sa femme Reine et de leur fille. Très vite le climat de cette expédition officielle se charge de soupcon et de haine. Des tensions entre Chaumareys et le lieutenant Coudein sont discernables. L'autoritisme irrationnel de Chaumareys provoquèrent l'échouage de "La Méduse". L'evacuatio des passgers privilegés, dont Chaumareys, Schmaltz et sa famille, prirent place sur canots de sauvetage; alors que quarante marins et soldats s'entassèrent sur un radeau.... Au bout de quatorze jours, quand le radeau fut repéré par une frégate, il ne restait plus que quatorze rescapés à bord.
Keywords: cannibalism, catastrophe, corpse, fear, france, french-republic, king-louis-xviii, lifeboat, napoleon-bonaparte, painter
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In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Keywords: 18th-century, ambition, arranged-marriage, atmosphere, balls, based-on-book, bridge, character-name-in-title, childlessness, citizenship
Napoleon Bonaparte: I want my family to be well established. Joseph, particularly. The rest must wait until the victorious culmination of my campaign in Italy.::Desiree Clary: And you think you can do with people precisely what you want? That life is as you say it is?::Napoleon Bonaparte: Have you ever heard of a thing called destiny, Désirée?
Count Brahe: You will enjoy life in Sweden, madame. Stockholm is called the Venice of the north.::Desiree Clary: [Shivering] I prefer the Venice of the south!
Queen Hedwig: [after Desiree dozes off during a boring concert] I will tell you, my dear daughter, how a Crown Princess of Sweden does not behave. A Crown Princess does *not* fall asleep in public. At court functions, she remains awake and converses, graciously.
Desiree Clary: [shouting over an icy wind as they dock in Stockholm] I hope we get indoors soon, Jean-Baptiste! I've worn all my warmest underthings and I'm still freezing! [Her husband raises his eyebrows, a bit shocked but obviously amused] Don't worry, no one's going to pull up my skirts and look!
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The love affair between the Frence Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Keywords: based-on-novel