FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Question
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All countries of Europe sought to establish empires like that of Napoleon’s.
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The Congress of Vienna established a balance of power to make sure another Napoleon didn’t rise.
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After Napoleon’s defeat, the Congress of Vienna restored the monarchs and aristocracy.
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Napoleon redrew the map of Europe and put his family on the thrones of several countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Even as it spread conflict, Napoleon’s conquests spread the new ideas and new institutions of the French Revolution throughout Europe. The countries he occupied had versions of the Napoleonic Code imposed on them, forming the legal basis for much of Continental European law today.
Detailed explanation-3: -Napoleon brought political stability to a land torn by revolution and war. He made peace with the Roman Catholic Church and reversed the most radical religious policies of the Convention. In 1804 Napoleon promulgated the Civil Code, a revised body of civil law, which also helped stabilize French society.
Detailed explanation-4: -He revolutionized military organization and training; sponsored the Napoleonic Code, the prototype of later civil-law codes; reorganized education; and established the long-lived Concordat with the papacy.