First Empire

American  

noun

1. the empire (1804–14) established in France by Napoleon Bonaparte.

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First Empire British  

noun

1. the period of imperial rule in France (1804–14) under Napoleon Bonaparte

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Example Sentences

"Shah has a God's gift - a brain sharper than Chanakya," says Yatin Oza, a lawyer and former BJP politician who worked closely with Amit Shah for decades until the two fell out, comparing him to the iconic Indian strategist behind the spread of the subcontinent's first empire 2,000 years ago.

From BBC

Other shopkeepers who came of age in the gilded 1980s embraced full-on Louis-era extravagance, dealing porcelain-inlaid gueridon side tables and gilt-edged daybeds, but in Beaujard’s namesake East 76th Street store, where he held court with an accent as thick as crème pâtissière, the disciplined stripes of Napoleon Bonaparte’s First Empire style, which alluded to Ancient Egypt and Imperial Rome, met the late 19th-century Art Nouveau furnishings of the French cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle.

From New York Times

We are not the first empire to suffer this fate.

From Salon

The 23-year-old from Clifton Park, New York, was trying to become the first Empire State native to beat the Mets and Yankees on the road in the same season.

From Seattle Times

That leader was responsible for the violent unification and establishment of the first empire in China — one whose power center lay in the western part of the Central Plains.

From Washington Post