Napolean Flashcards
Rise to power?
Napoleon was part of a group that successfully overthrew the French Directory. The Directory was replaced with a three-member Consulate, and 5’7” Napoleon became first consul, making him France’s leading political figure.
Social and Economic Reforms
Decreases taxes
Napoleonic Code
made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children.
Continental System
was meant to prohibit all trade, even by neutral countries, with Britain, the nation that Napoleon derisively referred to as ‘an island of shopkeepers,’ thereby sealing it off from continental Europe.
Collapse of Napolean?
Napoleon was forced to abdicate his throne after allied Austrian, Prussian and Russian forces vanquished his army and occupied Paris.
Congress of Vienna
provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars without the use of (military) violence.
Napolean symbolism of France
His “spirit animal” was a bee, he was seen as this huge army dude who was rly fucking good