Екатеринбург, пр-т Космонавтов, д. 26, к. 451; e-mail: kafedravseobshcheyistorii@mail.ru НАПОЛЕОНОВСКАЯ ЭПОХА В ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОМ ДИСКУРСЕ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ФРАНЦИИ1 КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: политический дискурс; образ Наполеона; общественное сознание; политическая сфера; СМИ. <...> Автор приходит к выводу о том, что образ Наполеона занимает знаковое место в политическом дискурсе Франции, являя собой некий символический поиск образца совершенной властной модели. <...> Postnikova Alena Aleksandrovna, Candidate of History, Associate Professor of Department of General History, Ural State Pedagogical University; Researcher, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia. <...> NAPOLEONIC ERA IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERN FRANCE KEYWORDS: political discourse; image of Napoleon; social conscience; political field; mass media. <...> The author attempts to present the transformation of the image of Napoleonic era in the political discourse of modern France, based on mass media materials. <...> The tendency of the French authorities to justify the authoritarian leadership by referring to the categories of the past usually brings about strong opposition from the public. <...> The author comes to the conclusion that Napoleon's image occupies a significant position in the political discourse of France, being a certain symbol of search of a form of perfect government model. <...> But the transformation of the image of the French emperor at different stages of development of the Fifth Republic shows that use of the image of a historical person or a historical event for the benefit of the power can lead to absolutely unpredictable results. <...> Thus, historical myths about Napoleon in the political space of modern France stimulate the awakening in the society of the feeling of patriotism only in reference to the sphere of the international relations. peared in the relationship between sciences and other forms of social conscience, which are not directly connected with science, which, at the same time, gave rise to many modern trends in Humanities. <...> This kind of semantic method helps the construction of definite historic ideas in the social conscience, which are usually aimed at the formation of patriotism. <...> А., 2016 he4 emergence of postmodernism was largely due to the changes that apthe symbols of past for the society consolidation, the authorities create the so called “analogy trap” for themselves. <...> Thus, in response to recent events <...>