Napoleon

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Napoleon
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Setting the Stage

• Reign of Terror allows Napoleon to come to
  power
• 20,000-40,000 executed

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Napoleons Rise

• Napoleon was a Jacobin
• Said it was better to eat than be eaten
• Napoleon overthrew Directory in 1799 saying I am
  no ordinary man
• Became 1st Consul for life 1802
• Emperor in 1804
• How does this betray Revolution and Enlightenment?

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Napoleons Lust for Power

• Strategy was to keep the people happy while
  taking from them all that he could
• Order, security, and efficiency replaced liberty,
  equality, and fraternity as slogans during the
  Napoleonic era

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Contradictions to Napoleonic Code

• Napoleon spread liberty and equality across
  Europe
• BUT . . .
• Reinstituted slavery in 1801 after it had been
  abolished in 1795
• Sent Rebel leader of Haiti to Prison

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I Grieved for Buonaparte

• Thoughts motherly . . ./ Wisdom doth live with
  children round her knees . . . This is the stalk/
  True power doth grow on
• Napoleon lacked compassion
• Shouldve focused on taking care of Frances
  economy and people.

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Napoleon vs. Frankensteins Monster

• Napoleon is The Monster created by the French
  Revolution
• Rousseau?

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Napoleon In Review

• Betrayed the Revolution
• Centralized the government
• Megalomaniac
• 3,500,000 deaths attributed to Napoleonic wars
• Romanticism
• Terror caused by Napoleon caused doubt as to the
  ability of reason and tolerance to end humanitys
  ills
• Napoleons actions needed to have been tempered
  with compassion in order to succeed

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Quiz Questions

• How did Napoleons actions help to usher in the
  Romantic era due to the doubt that he helped
  cause in the Enlightenments ability to end
  humanitys ills?

• How is Napoleon like Victor Frankenstein?