Napoleon, in brief
- 2. Rise to PowerMinor Corsican NobilityIntelligent, Military TalentMilitary and Technical EduationEnlightenment Values: Jacobin partisanRose Rapidly in Revolutionary ArmyPolitically Astuteputs down Royalists in 1795, 1797
- 3. First ConsulateNapoleon removes Director AbbéSiéyès and establishes the Constitution of the Year VIIIUniversal Male Suffrage, First Consul (Napoleon) in full authorityNapoleon-appointed Senate, confirming legislation suggested by Napoleon-appointed Council of State. Secret Police, Censorship (60 of 73 newspapers shut down), arrest and execution of royalistsConcordat with Roman Catholic Church, Organic Articles legalize Protestantism, Judaism
- 4. 1804 Napoleonic CodePublic trials, juries, basic freedoms of Revolution, etc.Eliminates feudal privileges, serfdom, guilds, Church authorityrenews Revolutionary prohibition on worker organizations and guildswomen 2nd class citizens:primacy of father over children and husband over wifeWomen’s property controlled by husbandsdivorce difficult; code eliminates exceptions and customary escapesBut mandates distribution of inheritance among all childrenCode Napoleon spreads with conquests
- 6. Napoleonic WarsMilitary InnovationsStrategic use of ArtilleryNapoleonic ColumnsMass MilitaryGeneral Staff SystemOperational IndependenceHinge“An Army Travels On Its Stomach”
- 8. Napoleon’s WeaknessesNeed for Total Control: Pride? Fear of Weakness? Accident of History?ExhaustionAvoidanceEngland: NavySpain: guerrillaRussia: Scorched Earth
- 9. Charles Joseph Minard, 1861
- 10. Napoleon’s DefeatsAusterlitz, WaterlooExiled to St. Helena, ElbaCongress of ViennaPreventing Another NapoleonFrance returned to 1792 BordersMonarchy LegitimizedCommitment to StabilityTreaties Binding on States, not leaders
- 11. Napoleon’s LegaciesStabilization of RevolutionNapoleonic CodeSale of Louisiana Territory to United StatesCongress of Vienna and Balance of Power systemReactive Nationalism
- 12. Minard Map from Wikipedia image collection
- 13. Strayer Map from Ways of the World
- 14. Paintings of Napoleon from http://library.thinkquest.org/C0110901/standard/gallery.html
- 15. For Full Chronology, see http://dresnerworld.edublogs.org/resources/french-revolution-napoleonic/