Often a symbol and reflection of French political power, the cathedral was vandalized through the French Revolution while Napoleon Bonaparte used it to reinstate monarchic rule with his coronation as Emperor.
Visit the Wellington Monument, a tribute to the 1st Duke of Wellington, a Dubliner known as the Iron Duke who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
The meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs remained a mystery until 1799 when Napoleon's soldiers unearthed a dark, damaged rock in the Egyptian coastal town of Rosetta.
Now, that question just established that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died in 1826 and say that you knew from some other source that Napoleon himself had died in 1821.