FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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based on location.
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given to those Napoleon favored, but taken away as soon as they fell out of favor.
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based on ability only, not rank or birth.
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designed to benefit the nobility and keep the middle class from obtaining high-ranking positions.
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Detailed explanation-1: -4. Promotion within Napoleon’s new bureaucracy was based on ability only, not rank or birth.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1795, Napoleon helped suppress a royalist insurrection against the revolutionary government in Paris and was promoted to major general.
Detailed explanation-3: -Born to parents of Italian ancestry, he was educated in France and became an army officer in 1785. He fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to brigadier general in 1793.
Detailed explanation-4: -What were Napoleon’s views about how civil and military workers should be hired and promoted? Napoleon believed that hiring and promotion should be based on talent, not on a person’s social class. He goes on to advise getting rid of any trace of serfdom and hierarchies in social class.