PORTRAIT OF MADAME RÉCAMIER.
(After David.)
Showing Empire settee and footstool.
(In the Louvre.)
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FRENCH FURNITURE—THE FIRST EMPIRE STYLE
1789. Commencement of French Revolution.
1798. Napoleon's campaign in Egypt.
1805. Napoleon prepares to invade England; Battle of Trafalgar; French naval power destroyed.
1806. Napoleon issued Berlin Decree to destroy trade of England.
1812. Napoleon invaded Russia, with disastrous retreat from Moscow.
1814. Napoleon abdicated.