Chapter 22

Question 1

What was the Council of State, chosen by the First Consul similar to in the ancien regime?

Answer 1

Old Royal Council governed by the kings of France

Question 2

What was the role of the prefect under Napoleon’s empire similar to in the ancien regime?

Answer 2

Intendant, chosen by the king

Question 3

What breaks the link of sovereignty deriving from the people under Napoleon’s rule?
What was it similar to?

Answer 3

Napoleon crowns self in 1804 in presence of Pope - divinely ordained
Divine right of kings

Question 4

What was the Republique Francaise?
What did it state?
How was this similar to the ancien regime?

Answer 4

Kept on all documents
Napoleon never adopted title of king
Sovereignty of the people but right if ruler to govern as majority wished
Meant people had no voice

Question 5

Why was it only mostly the wealth that grew enough to provide?

Answer 5

Agricultural wages rose slowly, didn’t keep pace with rents
Farming continues at subsistence level
(social)

Question 6

How long were harvests good until?
What happened after?

Answer 6

1811
After 1812, social unrest in countryside:
Poor harvests
Extra conscription for Russia (took men away form harvesting)
(social)

Question 7

What showed Napoleon was more about image rather than action?

Answer 7

Created image of Emperor for the common man
But little to help peasantry
(social)

Question 8

What was the Le Chapelier Law?

Answer 8

Banned trade unions; reaffirmed 1803
Restriction of workers rights
(social)

Question 9

What was the livret?

Answer 9

Threatened workers ‘right’ to seek new employment
(social)

Question 10

What did the livret & Le Chapelier Law show about Napoleon?

Answer 10

Restricted worker rights
Focused on employers, not employees
(social)

Question 11

What was the biggest social impact during Napoleon’s empire?

Answer 11

Death of 38% of men born in the years 1790-95 due to war
Reduced already declining birth rate
(social)

Question 12

In 1785 & after 15 years of rev, where did France stand compared to Britain economically?

Answer 12

On a par, behind
(economical)

Question 13

What grew economically under Napoleon’s empire?

Answer 13

Growth in cotton industry:
Mechanisation
Protectionist effect of blockade removed British competition
(economical)

Question 14

What happened to French industries other than the cotton one?

Answer 14

Iron industry increased demand but no efficiency increase
Countryside primitive - no increase in crop yields & not new techniques
(economical)