The following article covers the history of the French Empire from the coronation of Sebastien in 1943 and the following upheavals in the European order, through the Cold War, the nuclear age, the ascendance of Albert II, the Colonial Crises and the Siamese War, the modern French economy and the challenges of the monarchy in the Information Age, and culminates with the coronation of Maurice Napoleon and the "culture of the media" that has permeated his reign.