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It was commissioned in 1806 by Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, after his famous victory at the Battle of Austerlitz.

This was a large-scale project and it wasn't completed, amid several interruptions, until 1836. https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1627985831410401280/photo/1 (source: https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1627985831410401280)