Napoleon (AP EURO)

How did Napoleon see himself as a liberator?

Abolished feudalism and created the lycees program (Ed. funded by gov)

What Defeated Napoleon? (That got him exiled a second time)

Battle of Waterloo

When did Napoleon crown himself emperor?

December 2, 1804

Constitution Year VIII

Napoleon’s new government post directory

When was the Constitution Year VIII formed?

1799

Concordat with the Church

Fixing of church-state relations post French Revolution

When was the Concordat with the Church? With who?

1801, with Pope Pius VII

Sale of the Louisiana Territory (1803)

Napoleon sold $15 million of land worth to U.S. to fight GB, show U.S. growing as a power and France was weakening

When was Code Napoleon?

1804

Code Napoleon goal

Napoleon wanted to centralize the state and have legal reform

Confederation of the Rhine when

1806

Confederation of the Rhine

16 German States broke off to support Napoleon and it ended HRE

Continental System (1806)

Napoleon’s goal to isolate GB economically was to prevent trade with GB for all of France or its allies

Treaty of Fountainbleau

Exiled Napoleon to Elba in 1814

What came after Napoleon?

The Concert of Europe and the Congress of Vienna (1815)