Napoleon I.

about Bologna, informing Eugène about his decrees ordaining the establishment of boulevards around the city walls of Bologna ("...mon intention est qu'il y ait 4 allées autour des remparts...Pour subvenir à cette dépense, ainsi que pour améliorer et embellir la promenade qui existe a present, j'affecte un bien national de 200 à 230,000 L..."), the reform of the universities of Bologna and Pavia to put them on a par ("...j'ai trouvé la première dans un état d'infériorité...quatre millions pour l'entretien des deux universités ne sont pas trop..."), and the reorganisation of the water supplies throughout the [department of the] Reno, 3 pages, folio, Bologna, 25 June 1805

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Reno was one of the 24 departments of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy; Reno's capital was the ancient university city of Bologna.