NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

HERO OR VILLAIN OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?

How did he rise to power?

• Military exploits:

– French Revolution

– General of French Army

• Controlling his image

– Kept his defeats out of the newspapers

• Coup d’etat

– Nov. 1799 – his troops surrounded the legislature and remaining reps dissolved the Directory and established 3 Consuls (Napoleon – 1st

Consul) and soon became Dictator

• Peace treaties w/ Britain, Austria & Russia

How did he restore order & maintain contol?

• Plebescite

• Improved tax collection

• Est. a national bank

• Lycées

• Concordat

• Napoleonic Code

NAPOLEON AS EMPERORHOW DID NAPOLEON’S FOREIGN POLICY AFFECT EUROPEAN POLITICS?

Napoleon’s overseas foreign policy

Re-capturing Haiti >> failure Sale of Louisiana to U.S.A.

Empire-building in Europe (1807-1812)

What does the map show about Napoleon and Europe in 1812?

NAPOLEON ON THE IMPERIAL THRONE

“HE WAS HIS OWN WORSE ENEMY”

NAPOLEON’S MISTAKES…

• WHAT WAS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM?

• DID IT WORK? WHY OR WHY NOT?

• WHAT UNANTICIPATED CONSEQUENCES DID IT HAVE?

Nov. 1806 – the Continental System was established

THE PENINSULAR WAR – (1808-1814)

What consequences did Napoleon’s decision to invade Portugal and Spain and place his brother Joseph on the throne have on Europe? The globe?

The Third of May, 1808 Francisco Goya

French firing squad executing Spanish peasants suspected of being guerillas. What feelings does the painting inspire? How does it reflect attitudes in Europe during the Peninsular War / Napoleonic era?

The invasion of Russia, 1812

How does the map reflect Alexander’s strategy against Napoleon?

How did geography affect the outcome of Napoleon’s invasion?

The final blows…

• Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia and Sweden join forces to defeat him.

• Defeat (April 1814) >> Napoleon banished to Elba

• March 1, 1815 >> Hundred Days

• Waterloo

• St. Helena >> died 1821

NAPOLEON & JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE

“HE WAS AS GREAT AS A MAN CAN BE WITHOUT VIRTUE.”– Alexis de Tocqueville

NAPOLEON: HERO OR VILLAIN?

PROMOTED THE IDEALS OF THE FRENCH REV. BY:

NAPOLEON’S POLICIES / DECISIONS / ACTIONS

HURT THE IDEALS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BY:

• COUP D’ETAT• PLEBESCITE• TAX COLLECTION • NATIONAL BANK• LYCEES• CONCORDAT• CIVIL (NAPOLEONIC)

CODE• TRYING TO RE-CAPTURE

HAITI• CONQUEST OF EUROPE• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM• PENINSULAR WAR• INVASION OF RUSSIA• HUNDRED DAYS

IDEALS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: