5. Napoleon (1799-1815)

Marxist view

Napoleon betrayed the values of the revolution eg Lefebvre

Revisionist view

Napoleon made massive progress for French society eg Furet

Post revisionist view

Napoleon was a paradoxical character that supported the revolutionary principles within the bounds of military ambition e.g. Woronoff

central excise office date

1804

indirect taxation increase

400%

bank of France year

1804

smart person in bank of France

Gaudin

franc cost

1 franc = 25g silver

cost of war 1813

1 billion frances

example of Napoleon waning power

battle of Leipzig (1813)

taxation on invaded countries name

indemnity

how many gendarmes

18,000 (1810)

imprisonment without trail law data + mirroring which law

1810 law of suspects, mirroring 22 prairial (1793)

Grand dignitaries date

1804

Legion of honour + chevaliers date

1802

Senatoraries money for region

25,000 francs

Code Napoleon date

1807

Code Napoleon good

• partage

• abolition feudalism

Code Napoleon bad

• slavery

• limited women's rights and established patriarchal authority.

• livret

lycée number

45

scholarship number

6400

how many media by 1811

4

Napoleon control media

Le moniteur

Condordate date

1807

indemnity philosophy name in FP

une bonne affaire

battle of Jena year

1806

Prussia indemnity battle of Jena

311 million francs

continental system year

1806

continental system impacts on French exports

30% fall e.g. Bordeaux

Britain response to continental system

trade with Portugal doubles 1808-09

battle fo Austerlitz date

1805

battle of austerlitz Napoleon disadvantage

68,000 vs 90,000 troops but he won

treaty of Tilsit date

1807

Napoleon = emperor date

1804

restoration of monarchy

1814

grande armée number 1812

600,000

mobilised troops walk _____

20-25km/day

how many troops in each military corp

30,000

third coalition date

1803-05

what caused weakness in the coalitions

mutual suspicions e.g. previous Austrian alliance with France

invasion of Spain date

1808

how many guerrilla forces in Spain

1812 = 50,000

how many French troops —> Spain

350,000

Madrid revolts deaths (1808)

31 French deaths

who supported Spanish opposition

Wellington

invasion of Russia date

1812

how much of grande armée was French

45%

tactic of Russian in retreat

scorched earth

when Moscow conquered but not win

September 1812

how many grande armée return

25,000 only 4%

Malet affaire date

October 1812

Battle of Waterloo date

1815

battle of trafalgar year

1805

who believes that the Napoleonic Empire fell because of Napoleon’s hubris

Chandler

who believes that the Napoleonic empire fells because of the structural weakeness of the empire

Tulare

who believes that the Napoleonic Empire fell because of Napoleon’s obsession with Britain

Mazowker