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Napoleon in France Flashcards

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Constitutional of the Year VIII

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Adopted 24 December 1799

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Voting

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Communal, Department and National Lists (each proposed 10% of their number to be part of the next list)
The senate selected deputies from the national list to form the legislature

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First Consul

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voix deliberative

Initiates all legislation, appoints ministers, officials and judges, controls foreign policy

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Second and Third Consuls

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voix consultative

Cambacérès and Lebru were Napoleon’s consuls

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Council of State

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Advisory body to First Consul (chosen by him)

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Senate

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80 members appointed for life by Napoleon
Sieyes and Ducos were senators and they appointed another 29 senators
Selected the legislature
Advised on legislation
Could override the legislature with a ‘senatus consultum’

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Tribunate

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Lower chamber of the legislature
100 members over 25 years old
Discussed laws proposed by First Consul

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Corps Legislatif

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Upper chamber of the legislature
300 members over 30 years old
Votes on laws by secret ballot without discussion of them

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Plebiscite on Constitution of the Year VIII (date)

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7 February 1800 (post-facto referendum)

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Plebiscite on Constitution of the Year VIII (stats)

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Lucien (Minister of the Interior) announced that 3 million voted in favour and 1,500 voted against
1.5 million men are thought to have voted at all

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Number of gendarmes by 1810

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18,000 across France

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Napoleon quotation on censorship

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‘I will never allow the newspapers to do or say anything against my interest’

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All except 4 Parisian newspapers had been suppressed by

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1811

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Reduction in number of newspapers in 1800

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73 to 13 (reduced by 60)

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Active censorship for each paper by…

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1809

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Central Excise Office established

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1804 - reimplementation of indirect taxation

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Franc de germinal introduced

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1803 - currency stabilised (backed by silver and gold)

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Grand Master of the Imperial University

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Louis de Fontanes (a clergyman)

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All teachers had to swear an oath of loyalty to Napoleon

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1808

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Article 22 of DRMC

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Right to education

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Concordat

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Signed 15 July 1801
Published April 1802
Reunification of Church and State
Church would recognise the Revolution
Church would now be state-controlled – clergy would be paid civil servants, appointed by the First Consul and bound by the oath of loyalty
Other religious faiths would be tolerated

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Organic Articles

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Published April 1802
Limited Papal control
Papal envoys had to be approved before they could enter France and Papal documents had to be approved before they could be published
Seminaries which trained priests would be government-controlled and those running the training had to be French

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Imperial Catechism

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1806 - combined duty towards the Church with duty towards France, Napoleon and the Empire, powerfully promoting and effectively demanding loyalty towards him

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St Napoleon’s Day

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16 August (despite this being the day of another saint)

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Extra-judicial murder of Duc d’Enghien

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1804 - for supposedly supporting a royalist plot

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Purge of the Tribunate

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1802 (for stating that the civil code wasn’t revolutionary)

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Civil Code

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1804

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28
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Reintroduction of the livret

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1 December 1803

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Arbitrary arrest allowed

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1810

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Prefects

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17 February 1800

  1. Tax
  2. Propaganda
  3. Conscription
  4. Monitored opposition / public opinion
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Lucien quotations on the prefects (Lucien was Minister of the Interior)

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‘Be always the first magistrate of your department, never the man of the Revolution’
‘eyes, ears and voice’ of the central government
Collection of taxes = ‘sacred duty’

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32
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Special courts for the suppression of brigandage

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1801

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33
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Civil Code on inheritance law

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Divided estates equally among male heirs (partage)

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34
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Legion of Honour created

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19 May 1802

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Legion of Honour rewards given out

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38,000 awards of titles, land and money

Only 4000 to civilians

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36
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Imperial Nobility created

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1 March 1808

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37
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Imperial Nobility rewards given out

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3,500 new titles awarded

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38
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Napoleon adding to the Senate

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1814 – membership of the Senate had increased from 80 to 140 (Napoleon just kept adding loyal people)

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39
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Consul for Life

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1802 - Constitution of the Year X

40
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Emperor

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1804 (even though the revolution had dispensed with hereditary principle - 1790, dissolution of titles and coats of arms)

41
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Napoleon allowed the return of a large number of emigres

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19 May 1802

42
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Rigged plebiscite in 1804

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500,000 votes were added in favour on behalf of the army as 40% of them had voted against Napoleon in the previous plebiscite

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Bank of France established

44
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Rationalisation of the education system

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Napoleon’s abolishment of the Tribunate

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Suppressed by the senatus consultum of 19 August 1807

46
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Increase in prisons/prisoners

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1800-1814, number of prisoners x 3

47
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Minister of Police

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Joseph Fouché

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Main functions of the civilian police (5)

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Monitor public opinion 
Monitor food prices 
Censorship 
Survey potential subversives 
Search for deserters
49
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Number of prefects

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1800-1812, 257 prefects

68% had been employed in previous rev governments

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Low resistance to conscription

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90% of expected levies were raised without difficulty before 1808

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Marshals of France

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Title given to Napoleon’s 18 outstanding generals

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More than half the printing presses in Paris were shut down

53
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Official government newspaper

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Le Moniteur (1799) 
Orders of the Day and Bulletins
54
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Louvre was renamed

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Musée Napoleon in 1803

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Column in the centre of the Place Vendome

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44m high
Celebration of Austerlitz
Completed 1810

56
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Arc de Triomphe

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Commemorated the achievements of the French army under Napoleon
Construction began in 1806

57
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Failed dagger conspiracy

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October 1800, Jacobin assassination attempt

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Arrest of Jacobins

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1801, 129 Jacobins arrested or deported

59
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Napoleon’s letter to Louis XVIII

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September 1800

‘You should not hope to return to France. It would be better for you to march over one hundred thousand corpses’

60
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General Brune dealt with royalists in the west

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1800, 6000 Chouan imprisoned and 750 shot

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Royalist demonstration in which a church was covered in black and Napoleon’s will was posted on the door

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21 January 1800 (anniversary of Louis’ death)

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Cadoudal conspiracy

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1804, Pichegru and Cadoudal planned to assassinate Napoleon, take control of the army and reinstate a king

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Dealing with Madame de Stäel and her lover Benjamin Constant

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1803, banished from Paris (too liberal, had a salon, wanted freedom of speech/press)

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Amalgame

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Ending social divisions by reconciling the ruling notables with the old nobility

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Ralliement

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Rallying everyone in support of the new regime

66
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Toleration of Jews - meeting with rabbis

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1807, Napoleon met with 45 rabbis to discuss proposals for greater assimilation of Jews

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Changes to the electoral system under the 1802 constitution

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Department list could only be appointed by the 600 leading taxpayers in each department
Napoleon could nominate 10 members from the 30 highest taxpayers
Narrowed the franchise to benefit the notables even further

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Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor

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2 December 1804

Refused to let the Pope crown him

69
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Second Coronation in Milan

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26 May 1805 - became King of Italy

70
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New school system

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école populaire (state primary school in each commune)
collèges (municipal secondary schools)
instituts (vocational secondary schools)
lycées (education for boys aged 10-16, entrance by an open scholarship examination)

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Lycées

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Civil and military graduates were guaranteed employment – two separate strands of teaching
Modern, secular education that taught science
6,400 places, 2,400 went to sons of notables

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Reliance on clergy within education

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1812, just under one third of teachers in lycées and collèges were priests or ex-priests (not exactly secular education but might have been out of necessity due to lack of qualified staff)

73
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Napoleon divorced Josephine

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January 1810

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Code on Civil Procedure

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1806, standardised court practice according to the Civil Code

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Commercial Code

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1807, guidelines for commerce and business, including debt and bankruptcy

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Code on Criminal Procedure

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1808 - but double jury system (jury d’accusation) disappeared by 1811

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Penal Code

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1810, introduced harsher penalties
Death penalties for murder, arson and forgery
Loss of right hand and then execution for parricide

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Finance Minister

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Gaudin (1799-1814) - allowed for some stability

79
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More detailed land register drawn up called a ‘cadastre’

80
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Fraction of France that had been assessed for fairer taxation by 1815

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Octrois reintroduced

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September 1803

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Cour des Comptes

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September 1807, central bureau for handling state finances

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Bureau of Statistics

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Gathered data on the conditions of agriculture, commerce and industry by region

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Councils of Agriculture, Arts and Commerce established

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Wool industry

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Increased its yield by 400% according to 1811-12 report

86
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Silk industry

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1790-1812, 250% increase in exports

87
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Gabelle reintroduced

88
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State monopoly on tobacco revived

89
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First major bad harvest under Napoleon

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1811 (coupled with high conscription 1812-14 this led to serious social unrest in the countryside)

90
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Le Chapelier Law affirmed

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1803 (banned trade unions)

91
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Number of men who died across all of Napoleon’s campaigns

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916,000

Around 2 million men fought in Napoleon’s wars from 1800 to 1814

92
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Raw cotton imports…

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More than doubled between 1803 and 1807

93
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Number of cotton-spinning firms in Paris

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By 1811, there were 57

94
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Number of bureaucratic officials in the late Empire

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Around 4000

95
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Infernal machine plot

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24 December 1800
Royalist and Catholic plot against Napoleon
Explosion on his way to the opera

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