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Supposedly after Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz, he personally adopted the orphaned children of fallen French soldiers and they were allowed to add "Napoleon" to their baptismal and family names. What did this mean for these children in practice?

by /u/Jazz-Cigarettes in /r/AskHistorians

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