The French empire had expanded largely through military conquest.

法兰西帝国的扩张主要靠军事征服。

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This circular guéridon with Florentine hard stone inlay was commissioned by Napoleon for his second wife, Marie Louise, during the First French Empire (1804-1814).

此件佛罗伦斯硬石镶嵌（Pietra Dura）款式的圆形桌面小圆桌，是在拿破仑帝政时期（1804-1814），拿破仑为其第二任爱妻玛丽．路易斯所特别订制的。

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After briefly being incorporated in the First French Empire under Napoleon, the Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed in 1815, consisting of the present day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

在拿破仑的统治下，荷兰曾一度并入法兰西第一帝国，1815年荷兰王国成立，由今天的荷兰、比利时和卢森堡组成。

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They're building a French wine empire by taking cues from their New World counterparts, using simpler labels and emphasizing regions recently embraced by the U.S. consumer: Spain, Chile, Argentina and the once- neglected Languedoc region of France.

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Empire French furniture is still being preserved and should still be available a couple of hundred years from now.

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However, the rise of the celebrity press in France since the introduction in 2005 of magazines such as Closer, -- the French edition is published by Italian company Mondadori, part of the Berlusconi empire -- has proved that French readers have a taste for gossip too.

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