The Hotel Napoleon Paris is located only a minutes walk to the the Arc de Triomphe and the amazing Champs-Elysées.  The parisian night life offers various kinds of theatres, concerts, operas, or a dinner cruise on the Seine over the cabarets.  Many of the most popular establishments such as the Lido, Crazy Horse, Moulin Rouge, and Paradis Latin are all within a few minutes of the hotel.

Some shops such as Hermés, Vuitton, Dior and all the French fashion are present a few minutes away from the hotel.  We can also organize Cityrama, Paris Vision tours, and a visit to the famous 'Chateau de Versailles' and 'Chateaux de la Loire.'  There are many other tours and activities that you may want to enjoy, so if you need some ideas, directions, or tickets, just let Christian, our Concierge, know and he will be happy to help you.

Located in the very center of Paris, 'Les Salons de l'Etoile', the executive meeting rooms and lounges of Hotel Napoléon, offer many easy ways of access : bus, metro and RER at the Charles De Gaulle Etoile station. The Hotel is located 10 minutes from the largest parisian business area, : 'La Défense'.  'Les Salons de l'Etoile' are convenient for your business meetings, weddings and many other events. They can be modulated as you wish with full audio-visual equipment available.

On arrival, you may use the valet park.  The parking under the hotel is open 24 hrs a day.  Several facilities and services are offered :

Wake up calls and daily news papers
Medical service
Pharmacy service
Baby sitting
Mail service
Same day laundry and dry-cleaning service
Acess to handicaped persons
 
We can also take care of your reservations for renting a car with or without chauffeur, as well as taxis.  Our duty is to make your stay as pleasant as possible.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE : THE EMPEROR
Le Consulate

First Consul in 1800, Consul for life in 1802, Emperor in 1804 : it was only step by step that Bonaparte reached the absolute and hereditary power.  Reorganizing administration, justice and finance (settling of prefects, creation of the French Bank, etc.), he created a modern and centralized State. Negociating with the Concordat (1801), he made peace with the Church.  Writing the Civil Code, he consolidated the middle class society.

THE EMPIRE

From 1805 to 1807, Napoléon defeated Austria, Prussia and Russia.  At the Austerlitz battle (2 December 1805), Napoléon beat the austro-russian armies.  Then on October the 14th, 1806, he defeated the Frédéric Guillaume III's prussian army in Iéna.  At last, in 1807, vanquished the Russians in Eylau and Friedland.  On July the 7th, the Emperor was at the peak of his glory and reconciliated with the Tsar Alexandre 1st (Tillsit alliance).

In order to choke the English trade, Napoléon declared the continental Blocus (November 21st, 1806) : any business with the British Islands was forbidden. To reach this goal, he subdued Europe and fell in the 'Spanish trap' in 1808.  In 1809, it was the Wagram victory (July 5th) against Austria and the Great Empire reached its maximal extension in 1811.

But the enslaved Europe united and threatened the despotic warrior. After the Russian retreat in 1812,where more than 300 000 men perished, killed, wounded, prisoners, he is again defeated in Leipzig in 1814.  Napoléon Bonaparte abdicated but could not avoid the invasion of France.  The reunited kings gave him the Elbe Island for his exile and Louis XVIII, brother to Louis XVI became the French King.
 
Then the One Hundred Days epic arrived (March 20th - June 20th, 1815). Napoléon escaped from the Elbe Island and came back to France and power. King Louis XVIII ran away. On June the 18th, 1815, he was defeated in Waterloo and this was his last battle.  He abdicated and surrendered to the British on June, the 22nd. They sent him to Saint-Héléne where he died on May 5th 1821.  On April 15th, 1821, he wrote in his testament 'I am dying too early, assassinated by the English oligarchy and its cruelty. The English people will avenge me soon.'