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OCR: Between enthusiasm May over 8 and the 14 Amiens of 1802 peace in the treaty Auster Napoleon had himself declared consul From the Consulate to the Index Help for life by plebiscite the first step toward Napoleonic Empire Exit the absolute sove reignty that the Senate Back was to bestow on him in May, 1804 along with the heritable title of emperor. The ceremony OT coronation took place un December and, as the simple ratification of the people was not enough for him Napoleon tried return to the times Charlemagne and become sovereign by Bookmark divine right, invested by Pope Pius VII. But was he and not the pope who placed the crown on his own head and then crowned his wife Josephine; the gesture as well as demonstrating that he was the architect of his own success was warning to the French t ...