Cultural depictions of Napoleon

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, has become a worldwide cultural icon generally associated with tactical brilliance, ambition, and political power.

Napoleon plays an indirect yet utterly important part in Alexandre Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo.

Here we learn that he hands a letter to the protagonist Edmond Dantès to give to one of his chief (fictional) supporters in Paris - Noirtier De Villefort, the president of a Bonapartist club.

In an alternate timeline created by the assassination of the Duke of Wellington prior to Waterloo, Napoleon is persuaded to march on to Russia after the victory at Waterloo, but he dies shortly afterwards, his empire having become so overextended that the various countries collapse back into the separate nations they were before, thus degenerating into a state of perpetual warfare.

In 2013, Applied Mechanics produced Vainglorious, an epic, 26-actor immersive performance with Mary Tuomanen portraying Napoleon.

Napoleon also surrounded himself with the soldiers of his elite guard, required to be 1.83 m (6 ft) or taller,[citation needed] making him look smaller in comparison.

Napoleon is often represented in his green colonel uniform of the Chasseur à Cheval , with a large bicorne and a hand-in-waistcoat gesture.
The Napoleon Bonaparte Monument in Warsaw , Poland
A French Empire mantel clock representing Mars and Venus , an allegory of the wedding of Napoleon I and Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria . By the famous bronzier Pierre-Philippe Thomire , ca. 1810
Celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte involving historical reenactment groups in uniforms from the Napoleonic period on Napoleon Hill in Szczecin , Poland, 2008
Monument Napoleon
Cosplay of Napoleon
Mille-feuille
Albert Dieudonné as Napoleon in Napoléon
Napoleon's hat is a cultural icon .
A British political cartoon depicting Napoleon as short