The interior minister Montalivet presenting two loaves of beet sugar to Napoleon, 1812. The Emperor had ordered the production of local beet sugar after the continental blockades. Le ministre de l'interieure presente a l'empereur du sucre de betterave. Engraving by David after an illustration by Charles Monnet from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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