Napoleon

Also known as Napoleon d'Or

O Napoléon é o termo coloquial para uma antiga moeda de ouro francesa. As moedas foram cunhadas em denominações de 5, 10, 20, 40, 50 e 100 francos. Este artigo foca nas moedas de 20 francos emitidas durante o reinado de Napoléon Bonaparte, que têm 21 mm de diâmetro, pesam 6,45 gramas e, com 90% de pureza, contêm 0,1867 onças troy (5,807 g) de ouro puro. A moeda foi emitida durante o reinado de Napoleon I e apresenta seu retrato no anverso. A denominação continuou em uso ao longo do século XIX e moedas de ouro francesas posteriores na mesma denominação eram geralmente referidas como "Napoléons". Moedas de ouro francesas anteriores são referidas como Louis ou écu. Os Napoléons de ouro historicamente se mostraram mais resilientes do que outras moedas de ouro a forças econômicas, como após a Crise de Suez quando, ao contrário de outras moedas, os Napoléons não enfraqueceram.

Country: First French Empire, Second French Empire

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Also known as Napoleon d'Or

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“Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?”
— Letter to his uncle, Joseph Fesch (June 1791), as quoted in A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon. With Explanatory Notes (1884) edited by D. A. Bingham, Vol. I, p. 24
“France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.”
— Statement at Paris (23 January 1814)
“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”
— Statement of 1812, quoted in Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders (1978) by David Johnson
“Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.”
— From an alleged Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, Feb. 1, 1868.
“‘Do you know,’ Napoleon once said to Fontanes, ‘what fills me most with wonder? The powerlessness of force to establish anything. There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind.’”
— Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967), essays selected and translated from the French by Philip Thody, p. 104
“His Imperial and Royal Majesty entered his palace at the Tuileries last night in the midst of his faithful subjects.”
— Le Moniteur Universel, March 22, 1815.

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