Napoleonic empire
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The Cuop d´etat of 18 brumario gave the goverment to a CONSULATE.
Executive power: 3 consuls
SIEYES
DUCOS
NAPOLEON: bacame the first consul of the Republic
Peace with AUSTRIA and PRUSSIA
CONSTITUTION YEAR III (1799):
Established the goverment of the Consulate
Gave Napoleon most of the powers of a dictartor
Ratified by referendum
Catholicism was the religion of the great majority of the French but not the official state religion (freedom of religion).
The State would pay clerical salaries.
Napoleon won favor of the catholics.
Allegory of the Concordat
Centralised administration
Higher education system
NAPOLEONIC CODE: new civil code:
Forbade privileges based on birth
Freedom of religion
Goverment jobs: the most qualified
1804: Napoleon crowned himself EMPEROR
Napoleon crowned his wife Josephine in the presence of Pope.
From 1804 to 1807 Napoleon defeated his enemies (Prusia, Russia, Austria and Portugal).
1806: Continental System or Contiental Blockade against British Empire
1808: French troops invaded Spain to wake Portugal enforce the Continental System
1812: Napoleon started the invasion of Russia.
The beginning of the end:
Winter Russian Campaign
Peninsular War in Spain (aka Spain War of Independence)
Great BritainEuropean coalition Russia
PrussiaAustria
1814 arrived in Paris Napoleon abdicated
sent to the island of ELBA
Napoleon escaped from Elba
recovered the power for 3 mounths
N. was defeated by Wellington (GB)in
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
sent to the island of Saint Helena (died 1821)