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Napoleon and the British Army in the Battle of Waterloo
The British army forced the repatriation of native works of art to their places of origin after conquering France in 1815. So there was this ditty in France that went something like Rome is no longer in Rome, It's all in Paris. And I think that's what very much inspired Napoleon and he did bring these things back and have, you know, his kind of equivalent to a triumph in Paris.