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 | | Napoléon Bonaparte (August 15, 1769 — May 5, 1821) was the ruler of France from 1799 until 1815. |
 | | He was the effective ruler of France (as First Consul) starting in 1799, declared himself Emperor Napoléon I le Grand, (the great) on May 18, 1804 and continued as Emperor until April 6, 1814. |
 | | Napoléon, over the course of little more than a decade, acquired control of most or all of the western and central mainland of Europe by conquest or alliance until his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, followed shortly by capture and exile. |
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