Napoléon’s personal map of the French Empire in 1812

- c. 1812

Napoléon’s personal map of the French Empire in 1812, with pin pricks attributed to him, marking his campaigns. “It was a beautiful Empire!” he reminisced on St. Helena. “I had eighty-three million human beings under my government—half the population of Europe.”

Paper lined with silk

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