1. Ch.11 Sec. 3 Age of Napoleon

2. Napoleon built a vast empire, but lost it also.
Main Idea
Napoleon built a vast empire, but lost it also.
Nationalism spread as a result of the French Revolution

3. I. Rise of Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte was born in He went to a military school in France on a scholarship.
By 1785 he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the French army.
He educated himself in philosophy & the great military campaigns.

4. By 25, he was made brigadier general by the Committee of Public Safety
By 25, he was made brigadier general by the Committee of Public Safety. He won battles in Italy.
Napoleon’s intelligence, charm, wit, and decisiveness won the support of troops and other high ranking officials.
When he returned from Italy he was viewed as a hero.

5. Napoleon (age 30) took part in the coup d etat that overthrew the Directory. This new gov’t was called a consulate. Napoleon held absolute power.
1. appointed members of the bureaucracy
2. controlled the army
3. conducted foreign affairs
4. influenced the legislature
By 1802 he made himself consul for life, and in 1804 he crowned himself Emperor.

6. II. Napoleon’s Domestic Policies
Napoleon made peace with the Church. In 1801 he and the Pope made an agreement to recognize Catholicism as the religion in France. Napoleon made the Church & people who seized the lands happy.
Napoleon’s most famous domestic achievement was codifying French laws (a single law code)

7. The most important new code was the Civil Code which;
Recognized equality before the law
Right to choose a profession
Religious toleration
End of serfdom & feudalism
Outlawed unions and strikes
Things it undid;
1.Making divorce hard again
2.Inheriting property for children & daughters became difficult

8. Napoleon developed a powerful, centralized administration
Napoleon developed a powerful, centralized administration. He opened gov’t jobs based on ability. This made the middle class happy.

9. How did Napoleon preserve the ideals of the French Revolution?
By the Civil Code which recognized equality of all citizens before the law, and opened gov’t careers to more people
Napoleon also destroyed some revolutionary ideas such as shutting down 60 of 73 of France’s newspapers, screened manuscripts before they were published, had police read people’s mail.

10. Anne-Louise-Germaine de Stael was a writer that supported Napoleon until she asked him who the greatest woman of history was. He answered “The one who had the most children”. She later denounced him as a tyrant.

11. III. Napoleon’s Empire
Napoleon achieved a peace treaty in 1802, but war was renewed in His Grand Army defeated Austria, Russia, and Prussia.
Napoleon had a Grand Empire with 3 parts;
French Empire, dependent states, and allied states
The allied states were those Napoleon defeated and forced to join him in war against Britain.

12. IV. The European Response
The two main causes of the quick collapse of Napoleon’s empire were;
survival of G.B.
force of nationalism
Britain survived because of its
sea power
By Britain defeating a French & Spanish Trafalgar (1805) it ended Napoleon’s dream to take over Britain.

13. The Continental system was intended to stop British goods from entering other countries
What are some symbols of American nationalism?

14. V. Fall of Napoleon
Napoleon’s fall began when trying to invade Russia who rejected the Continental System.
In 1812, Napoleon’s Grand Army entered Russia, who would not fight (retreated). Russia burned villages. Why?
600,000 entered Russia, only 40,000 returned.

15. Other European nations attacked the Grand Army
Other European nations attacked the Grand Army. Paris was captured in (Elba)
Bourbon monarchy restored!
Troops were sent to capture & kill him but they joined him (LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR) Entered Paris in March 1815.

16. European nations again fought to end Napoleon’s rein
European nations again fought to end Napoleon’s rein. Did Waterloo in Napoleon was defeated by Duke of Wellington.