MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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within France only
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throughout Europe
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in Great Britain and the United States
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in French territories
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Detailed explanation-1: -French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte increased nationalistic tendencies both at home and abroad. In France, he unified the law with the 1804 Napoleonic Code and boosted morale through military victories. His enemies abroad strengthened their own national unity as they worked to fight Napoleon or chafed at their defeat.
Detailed explanation-2: -The concept of Nationalism emerged in the French Revolution and was spread to the rest of Europe by Napoleon’s conquests. Nationalism was used by Napoleon to make France a great power in Europe. Nationalism helped France to develop a national language which was taught in schools to replace local dialects.
Detailed explanation-3: -The rise of nationalism in Europe was stimulated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.
Detailed explanation-4: -Napoleon’s conquests cemented the spread of French revolutionary legislation to much of western Europe. The powers of the Roman Catholic church, guilds, and manorial aristocracy came under the gun. The old regime was dead in Belgium, western Germany, and northern Italy.
Detailed explanation-5: -In his time, Napoleon Bonaparte of France commanded the ideological environment which made nationalism grow and helped to turn the idea of the ‘nation’ into one of the most powerful political forces in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.