So that he would not appear subservient to the Pope.
At the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
Mainly glory.By putting the imperial crown on his own head while the Pope stood by, Napoleon made a symbolic gesture stating that he would be subservient to no one on earth, and that Rome would never...
The Emperor of the French.
to prove he was higher than the pope himself, and he was the ruler. That no one else was higher than he and the church was weak.