The Grand Dignitaries of the French Empire were created in 1804 by the Constitution of the Year XII, which established Napoleon Bonaparte, previously First Consul for Life, as Emperor of the French. T
Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès
Eugène de Beauharnais
Charles-François Lebrun
Joseph Bonaparte
The Great Officers of the Crown of France were the most important officers of state in the French royal court during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration. They were appointed by the King of Franc
Grand Dignitaries of the French Empire
…which established Napoleon Bonaparte, previously First Consul for Life, as Emperor of the French. The seven Grand Dignitaries broadly paralleled the Great Officers of the Crown which had existed under the Ancien Régime and were essentially honorific, although several limited functions were ascribed to them in the new constitution…
Depiction of the coronation of Louis XVI (1775). The three principal Great Officers of the Crown are circled and marked '16'; they were Henri Louis, Prince of Guéméné (Grand Chamberlain), Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (Grand Master) and René Nicolas de Maupeou (Grand Chancellor).