MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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designed to keep the middle class out of high-ranking positions
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available equally to men and women.
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based on ability rather than rank or birth.
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given only to those Napoleon favored.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Promotion within Napoleon’s new bureaucracy was based on ability only, not rank or birth. 5. The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in Belgium.
Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon Bonaparte had a great influence on French law and French bureaucracy. He created a bureaucracy where advancement in the bureaucracy was based on merit as a civil servant. Promotions based on social rank or privileged birth were abolished.
Detailed explanation-3: -The defeat of the royalist insurrection extinguished the threat to the Convention and earned Bonaparte sudden fame, wealth, and the patronage of the new government, the Directory. He was promoted to Commander of the Interior and given command of the Army of Italy.
Detailed explanation-4: -As First Consul, Napoleon instituted a number of lasting reforms: centralised administration of government, a higher education system, a central bank, law codes and a road and sewer system, many of which are still in place today.