rock the boat. 1. Lit. to do something to move a boat from side to side, causing it to rock. (Often in a negative sense.) Sit down and stop rocking the boat.
The Bumpy Coronation of Napoleon. Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor of the French on December 2, 1804 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. A victorious general who had become leader of France through a coup dâÃ©tat, Napoleon wanted to establish the legitimacy of his regime.
In a separate treaty, France gave up LouisianaNew Orleans and the French lands west of the Mississippito Spain. In the late 1700s, Napoleon Bonaparte (17691821) became the first emperor of France. One of his many ambitions was to build a colonial empire in North America.