Check my other channel Biographics! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehV→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Robbing Wham https://youtu.be/_eJ2ufGC_i0 How Were Kamikaze Pilots Chosen? https://youtu.be/vtiAALlxOFk In this video: Napoleon was a lot of things, but modest wasn’t one of them. This is something no better proved than that time he responded to being declared Emperor of the French by planning an elaborate ceremony that would see him stroll around wearing an 80 pound (37 kg) cape… No, that isn’t a typo. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/05/day-may-18th-napoleon-becomes-emperor-french/ Sources: http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/napoleon/section5/ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=51MwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA105&dq=napoleon+emperor+mantle&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFp_SAmr_aAhWmAsAKHcrDCIgQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=napoleon%20emperor%20mantle&f=false https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/articles/napoleons-consecration-and-coronation/ http://www.wargame.ch/wc/nwc/newsletter/newsletter23/Coronation.html http://shannonselin.com/2016/01/what-did-napoleons-wives-think-of-each-other/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_Napoleon https://www.rc.umd.edu/gallery/crowning-himself-emperor-france https://shannonselin.com/2016/12/coronation-of-napoleon/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Louise,_Duchess_of_Parma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Jos%C3%A9phine Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NapoleanCoronationDavid.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Josephine_de_Beauharnais,_Keizerin_der_Fransen.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques-Louis_David-_Consecrat