Napoleon's family ; his marshals and generals ;
his allied and enemies ; his ministers ; politicians he met ;
mathematicians, scientists, doctors, painters and other artists having
practised during the Consulate and the First French Empire ; two
popes ; a cooper... Read a short biography of each personality
having participated (voluntarily or not) to the napoleonic epic.
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- ABRIAL, André-Joseph -
Minister of Justice
- ALEXANDER I -
Emperor of Russia from 1801 to 1825
- ADDINGTON, Henry -
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- ALI (Louis Etienne SAINT-DENIS, a.k.a.) - Mamluk
of Emperor Napoleon
- ANTRAIGUES, Emmanuel-Louis-Henri de LAUNAY, Count of
- Pamphleteer, spy and political adventurer
- APPIANI, Andrea -
Painter
- ARRIGHI de CASANOVA, Jean-Thomas, Duke of PADUA -
General of the French Empire
- ARTOIS, Charles-Philippe,
Count of - Younger brother of King Louis XVI and King
Louis XVIII, King of France as Charles X from 1824 to 1830
- AUGEREAU, Charles Pierre
François, Duke of CASTIGLIONE - Marshal of
the French Empire
- AUSTRIA, Archduke
Charles of - Austrian field Marshal
- AUSTRIA, Francis
I of - Emperor of Austria
- BACIOCCHI, Félix-Pascal - Napoleon's brother-in-law
- BAGRATION, Pyotr Ivanovich -
Georgian General in the Russian army
- BARBÉ-MARBOIS, François de
- Minister of the Treasury
- BARRAS, Paul François
de - French politician
- BEAUHARNAIS, Eugène de - Viceroy of the Kingdom
of Italy, Napoleon's stepson
- BEAUHARNAIS, Hortense de -
Queen of Holland, Napoleon's stepdaughter
- BEAULIEU, Johann von -
Belgian General in the Austrian army
-
LA BÉDOYÈRE, Charles de - General
- BENNIGSEN, Levin August
von - German General in the Russian army
- BERNADOTTE, Jean-Baptiste
Jules, Prince of PONTE-CORVO - Marshal of the French
Empire, then King of Sweden
- BERTHEMY, Pierre-Augustin - Colonel of the
French Empire and General of the Kingdom of Naples
- BERTHIER, Alexandre,
Prince of WAGRAM - Marshal of the French Empire
- BERTHOLLET, Claude-Louis, Count - Chemist
- BESSIÈRES, Jean
Baptiste, Duke of ISTRIA - Marshal of the French Empire
- BICHAT, Marie François Xavier - Physician
and physiologist
- BIGNON, Louis, Baron -
Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- BIGOT de PRÉAMENEU,
Félix-Julien-Jean, Count - Minister of Worship
- BLÜCHER, Gebhard
Leberecht von - Prussian Marshal
- BONAPARTE,
Caroline (Marie-Annonciade, a.k.a.) - Napoleon's sister
- BONAPARTE, Elisa
(Marie-Anne, a.k.a.) - Napoleon's sister
- BONAPARTE, Jérôme -
Napoleon's brother
- BONAPARTE, Joseph -
Napoleon's brother
- BONAPARTE, Louis -
Napoleon's brother
- BONAPARTE, Lucien -
Napoleon's brother
- BONAPARTE, Napoléon-François-Charles-Joseph -
Napoleon's son
- BONAPARTE,
Pauline (Marie-Paulette, a.k.a.) - Napoleon's sister
- BORGHESE,
Camillo - Napoleon's brother-in-law
- BOURDOIS de LA MOTTE, Edme-Joachim - Physician of the King of Rome
- BOURDON de VATRY, Marc-Antoine -
Minister of the Navy
- BOURMONT, Louis Auguste Victor de GHAISNES, count of -
General of the French Empire
- BUONAPARTE,
Carlo Maria (BONAPARTE, Charles-Marie) - Napoleon's
father
- BUONAPARTE,
Laetitia (born RAMOLINO, Maria-Letizia) - Napoleon's
mother
- BRUNE, Guillaume Marie-Anne -
Marshal of the French Empire
- BRUIX, Eustache - Vice-admiral
- CADET DE GASSICOURT, Charles-Louis - Pharmacist
and writer
- CADOUDAL, Georges -
Leader of the Chouannerie against French Revolution
- CAMBACÉRÈS,
Jean-Jacques Régis de, Duke of PARMA - French
statesman, Second Consul
- CAMBRONNE, Pierre Jacques
Étienne - General of the French Empire
- CARNOT, Lazare Nicolas,
Comte - Mathematician, scientist, General in the
French army and politician
- CAULAINCOURT, Armand
Augustin Louis de, Duke of VICENZA - Minister of Foreign
Affairs
- CHAMPAGNY, Jean-Baptiste
de NOMPÈRE de, Duke of CADORE - Ambassador
at Vienna, later Minister
- CHAPTAL, Jean-Antoine-Claude,
Count of CHANTELOUP - Minister of Internal Affairs
- CHARLES IV (CARLOS
IV) - King of Spain from 1788 to 1808
- CHERUBINI, Luigi - Musician
- CLARKE, Henri-Jacques-Guillaume,
Duke of FELTRE - Minister of War
- CLARY, Bernardine-Eugénie-Désirée,
a.k.a. Désirée - Young Napoleon's fiancée,
then Queen of Sweden
- COLLIN, Jean-Baptiste,
count of SUSSY - Minister of Commerce and Industry
- CONSTANT de REBECQUE, Benjamin - Politician and writer
- CORVISART des MARETS,
Jean-Nicolas, Baron - Primary Physician of the Emperor
- CRÉTET, Emmanuel,
Count of CHAMPMOL - Minister of Internal affairs
- CUVIER, Georges (Jean
Léopold Frédéric, a.k.a.), Baron -
Naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist
- DALBERG, Emmerich Joseph, Duke of - French Diplomat
- DARU, Pierre-Antoine-Noël
Bruno, Count - Secretary of State, Minister of War Administration
- DAVID, Jacques Louis -
Painter
- DAVOUT, Louis-Nicolas,
Duke of AUERSTAEDT, Prince of ECKMÜHL - Marshal
of the French Empire
- DECRÈS, Denis,
Duke - Minister of the Navy
- DEJEAN, Jean-François-Aimé,
Count - Minister of the War Administration
- DENON,
Dominique Vivant, Baron - Director of the Napoleon Museum
- DENUELLE DE LA PLAIGNE, Eléonore - Mistress
of Emperor Napoleon I
- DESGENETTES, René-Nicolas
(DUFRICHE, Baron) - Chief doctor to the French army
- DUCHÂTEL born PAPIN, Marie-Antoinette Adèle -
Mistress of Emperor Napoleon I
- DUGOMMIER, Jacques
(COQUILLE, Jacques François, a.k.a.) - General
in the French army
- DUPUYTREN, Guillaume - Surgeon and anatomist
- DUROC, Géraud Christophe
de MICHEL du ROC, a.k.a, Duke of FRIULI - Grand Marshal
of the Palace
- ÉBLÉ, Jean-Baptiste, Count - General
- ENGHIEN, Louis Antoine Henri de BOURBON-CONDÉ, Duke
of - French Prince
- FERDINAND VII (FERNANDO
VII) - King of Spain in 1808 then from 1813 to 1833
- FESCH, Joseph -
Cardinal. Napoleon's uncle
- FORFAIT, Pierre-Alexandre -
Minister of the Navy
- FOUCHÉ, Joseph,
Duke of OTRANTO - Minister of Police
- FOX, Charles James - English politician and Minister
- FREDERICK-WILLIAM III (FRIEDRICH-WILHELM III) -
King of Prussia
- GAUDIN, Martin Michel
Charles, Duke of GAETA - Minister of Finance
- GEORGE III - King of United Kingdom and Ireland,
King of Hanover
- GÉRARD, François
Pascal Simon - Painter
- GIRARD, Jean-Baptiste, Duke of LIGNY - General
of the French Empire
- GIRODET de ROUCY, Anne-Louis
(a.k.a. Girodet-Trioson or Girodet) - Painter
- GODOY, Manuel, Principe de la PAZ - Prime Minister
of Spain
- GOUVION-SAINT-CYR, Laurent,
Count of - Marshal of the French Empire
- GRANET, Omer -
French cooper and politician
- GROS, Antoine Jean -
Painter
- GROUCHY, Emmanuel, Count
of - Marshal of the French Empire
- GUERIN, Jean-Baptiste
Paulin (a.k.a. Paulin-Guérin) - Painter
- HABSBOURG-LORRAINE,
Marie-Louise de (a.k.a. Marie-Louise of AUSTRIA) -
Empress of the French from 1810 to 1814
- HAUTPOUL, Jean Joseph Ange d' - General of the French
Empire
- HEURTELOUP,
Nicolas - Chief surgeon of the Grand Army
- HUGO, Joseph Léopold Sigisbert - General,
father of writer Victor Hugo
- INGRES, Jean Auguste Dominique -
Painter
- ISABEY, Jean-Baptiste -
Miniaturist painter
- JEFFERSON, Thomas -
President of the United States of America
- JOURDAN, Jean-Baptiste -
Marshal of the French Empire
- JUNOT, Jean-Andoche, Duke
of ABRANTES - General of the French Empire
- KELLERMANN, François
Étienne Christophe, Duke of VALMY - Marshal
of the French Empire
- KUTUZOV, Mikhaïl Illarionovitch, Prince of SMOLENSK -
Russian field Marshal
- LA BÉDOYÈRE, Charles HUCHET de -
General of the French Empire
- LACUÉE, Jean Girard,
Count of CESSAC - Minister of War administration
- LAËNNEC, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe -
Physician
- LAGRANGE, Joseph Louis,
Count - Mathematician
- LAHARPE, Amédée
Emmanuel François - Swiss General in the French
army
- LA MOTTE, Edme-Joachim BOURDOIS de - Physician of the King of Rome
- LANNES, Jean, Duke of
MONTEBELLO - Marshal of the French Empire
- LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon,
Count - Mathematician and astronomer
- LARIBOISIÈRE or LARIBOISSIÈRE, Jean Ambroise
BASTON, Count of - General of the French Empire
- LARREY, Dominique-Jean,
Baron - Chief surgeon to the French army
- LASALLE, Antoine Charles
Louis, Count of - General of the French Empire
- LEBRUN, Charles-François, Duke of PIACENZA
- Third Consul
- LECLERC, Charles-Victor-Emmanuel - General, Bonaparte's
brother-in-law
- LEFEBVRE, François
Joseph, Duke of DANTZIG - Marshal of the French Empire
- LEFEBVRE-DESNOUETTES, Charles - General of the French
Empire
- LEJEUNE, Louis François,
Baron - Painter and General of the French Empire
- LOUIS XVIII of France -
King of France from 1814 to 1824
- LOWE, Sir Hudson - Jailer of Napoleon at Saint-Helena
- MACDONALD, Étienne
Jacques Joseph Alexandre, Duke of TARANTO - Marshal
of the French Empire
- MADISON, James -
President of the United States of America from 1809 to 1817
- MARCHAND, Louis-Joseph-Narcisse, Count - Napoleon's
First Valet
- MARET, Hugues Bernard,
Duke of BASSANO - French Secretary of State, Minister
of Foreign affairs
- MARMONT, Auguste Frédéric
Louis VIESSE de, Duke of RAGUSA - Marshal of the French
Empire
- MASSENA, André,
Duke of RIVOLI, Prince of ESSLING - Marshal of the
French Empire
- MECKLEMBURG-STRELITZ, Louise of - Queen of Prussia
- MOLÉ, Mathieu-Louis,
Count - Minister of Justice
- MOLLIEN, Nicolas-François,
Count - Minister of the Treasury
- MONCEY, Bon Adrien JANNOT
de, Duke of CONEGLIANO - Marshal of the French Empire
- MONGE, Gaspard, Count of
PELUSIUM - Mathematician and politician
- MONTALIVET, Jean-Pierre
BACHASSON, Count of - French politician
- MOREAU, Jean-Victor Marie - General of French Republic,
later Russian field marshal
- MORTIER, Adolphe Edouard
Casimir Joseph, Duke of TREVISO - Marshal of the French
Empire
- MOUTON, Georges, Count of LOBAU - General of
the French Empire
- MURAT, Joachim, Prince -
Marshal of the French Empire and King of Naples
- NELSON, Horatio -
Vice-admiral of the Royal Navy
- NEY, Michel, Duke of ELCHINGEN,
Prince of MOSKOWA - Marshal of the French Empire
- OTTO, Louis, Count of MOSLOY
- Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
- OUDINOT, Nicolas Charles,
Duke of REGGIO - Marshal of the French Empire
- PALAFOX Y MELCI, José de - Spanish General
and politician
- PAOLI, Pasquale - Corsican patriot and leader
- PAUL I - Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801
-
PELLETIER, Louis
- General in the French army
- PERCY, Pierre-François,
Baron - Chief surgeon to the French army
- PERIGNON, Catherine-Dominique
de, Count - Marshal of the French Empire
- PIUS VI -
Pope from 1775 to 1799
- PIUS VII -
Pope from 1800 to 1823
- PITT, William -
Prime Minister of Great Britain then of the United Kingdom
- PONIATOWSKI, Józef
Antoni - Polish Prince and Marshal of the French Empire
- PORTALIS, Jean-Étienne-Marie
- Minister of Worship
- PROVENCE, Louis Stanislas
Xavier, Count of - Younger brother of King Louis XVI,
King of France as Louis XVIII from 1814 to 1824
- RAPP, Jean, Count - General of the French Empire
- REGNIER, Claude-Ambroise,
Count of MASSA - Minister of Justice
- REINHARD, Karl Friedrich,
Baron - French minister and diplomat
- ROBESPIERRE,
Augustin-Bon-Joseph - French revolutionary. Maximilien's
brother
- ROUSTAM RAZA - Mamluk of Emperor Napoleon
- SAVARY, Anne-Jean-Marie-René,
Duke of ROVIGO - Minister of Police
- SERURIER, Jean-Mathieu
Philibert, Count - Marshal of the French Empire
- SOULT, Jean de Dieu, Duke
of DALMATIA - Marshal of the French Empire
- STAEL, Anne-Louise-Germaine
de, born NECKER - Writer
- STAPS, Friedrich - The man who wanted to kill Bonaparte!
- STENDHAL, (Henri BEYLE, a.k.a.) - French writer
- SUCHET, Louis-Gabriel,
Duke of ALBUFERA - Marshal of the French Empire
- TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD,
Charles Maurice de, Prince of BENEVENTO - Minister
of Foreign affairs
- TASCHER de la PAGERIE,
Marie-Josèphe-Rose de (widow BEAUHARNAIS, a.k.a. Joséphine) -
Empress of the French from 1804 to 1809
- TOUSSAINT-LOUVERTURE, François-Dominique -
General and statesman
- VANDAMME, Dominique-Joseph, Count of UNSEBOURG -
General of the French Empire
- VERHUELL or VER-HUELL, Charles-Henri, Count of SEVENAER -
French (born Dutch) Vice-Admiral
- VICTOR (PERRIN, Claude-Victor,
a.k.a.), Duke of BELLUNO - Marshal of the French Empire
- VILLENEUVE, Pierre-Charles de - Vice-Admiral
-
VITTORIO AMEDEO III
- King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy
- VOLTA, Alessandro Giuseppe
Antonio Anastasio, Count - Lombard physicist
- WALEWSKA, Maria -
Mistress of Emperor Napoleon I
- WALEWSKI, Count Alexandre -
Son of Emperor Napoleon I and his mistress Maria Walewska
- WELLINGTON (WELLESLEY,
Arthur), Duke of - English Marshal and statesman
- WINTER, Jean Guillaume de, Count of HUESSEN -
French (born Dutch) Vice-Admiral and General
- WURMSER, Dagobert Sigismund von - Austrian General
- YORCK, Ludwig - Prussian General