Chapter 17 - 'no I swear I'm not a king'

"Date of the ""Infernal Machine"" attempt"

24th December 1800

Number of people killed or wounded by the bomb - the infernal machine

52

Year of the Constitution of Year VIII / First Plebiscite

1800

Turnout for the Constitution of 1793

33%

Turnout for the Constitution of 1795

22%

Actual turnout for the 1800 Plebiscite

25%

Actual number of people who voted in 1800

1.5 million

Month and year Lucien Bonaparte was appointed Minister of the Interior

December 1799

Lucien’s adjusted participation statistic (1800)

46.26%

"Percentage of ""YES"" votes in 1800"

99.94%

"Percentage of ""NO"" votes in 1800"

0.06%

"Month and year of the Jacobin ""dagger conspiracy"""

October 1800

Year 129 Jacobin leaders were arrested/deported to Guiyana

1801

Number of Jacobin leaders arrested/deported in 1801

129

Month and year Napoleon replied to the Comte de Provence saying he shouldn’t hope to return to France

September 1800

Number of Chouan prisoners taken in Brittany

6000

Number of Chouan prisoners shot in 1800

750

Year of Chouan executions in Brittany

1800

Years of various royalist disturbances in the capital

1800 and 1804

Date of royalist demonstration on anniversary of Louis XVI's execution - Church of sainte-madeleine covered in black and king’s will posted on the door

21 Jan 1800

Year 18 aristocrats involved in the Cadoudal conspiracy were imprisoned until

1814

Year of the Cadoudal conspiracy

1804

Number of royalist assassination attempts mentioned

At least two

Duc D’enghian shot in a ditch as Napoleon came down hard against Royalists

1804

Distance the Duc d’Enghien lived from the French border

15km

Number of charges admitted to by the Duc d'Enghien

2

Year Constant and Madame de Stael were banished

1803

Distance from Paris Constant and de Stael were banished to

64km

Year of the Battle of Marengo - success against austrian forces in Piedmont - good propaganda for Napoleon

1800

Year of the Peace of Amiens - brief respite from war with Britain

1802

Number of years of constant war with Britain prior to Amiens

9

Year Napoleon was offered Consul for Life

1802

Designation of the 1802 Constitution

constitution of Year X

Turnout percentage for the 1802 Plebiscite

50.55%

"Percentage of ""YES"" votes in 1802"

99.76%

"Percentage of ""NO"" votes in 1802"

0.24%

Year of establishment of Emperor status

1804

Year war resumed with Britain

1803

Months/Year of the Duc d’Enghien conspiracy

February/March 1804

Designation of the 1804 Constitution

constitution of Year XII

Turnout percentage for the 1804 Plebiscite

47.2%

"Percentage of ""YES"" votes in 1804"

99.93%

"Percentage of ""NO"" votes in 1804"

0.07%

Date Napoleon was consecrated as Emperor

2nd December 1804

Date of coronation in Milan Cathedral

26 May 1805

Month and year Napoleon began blocking the Tribunate/Legislative body with the senatus consultum

January 1801

Months/Year Bonaparte purged the Senate and Tribunate

January and March 1802

Number of members removed from the Tribunate in 1802

20

Number of members removed from the Legislative Body in 1802

60

Number of sections the Tribunate was split into in 1802

3

Year the Tribunate was abolished

1810

Year of the last meeting of the Legislative body

1813

Year of the final bid for power and radical change

1815