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Napoleon and Post-Revolutionary France

Napoleon and Post-Revolutionary France. Post Revolutionary France. The Directory was not providing order. Emigres wanted a return to the monarchy. A coup d’etat occurs to put down any chance of a monarchy coming back to France. Napoleon. Born in Corsica in 1769 to a poor family Jacobin

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Napoleon and Post-Revolutionary France

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  1. Napoleon and Post-Revolutionary France

  2. Post Revolutionary France • The Directory was not providing order. • Emigres wanted a return to the monarchy. • A coup d’etat occurs to put down any chance of a monarchy coming back to France.

  3. Napoleon • Born in Corsica in 1769 to a poor family • Jacobin • Admitted to two military schools including the prestigious L’ecole Royale Militaire.

  4. Desiree Cleary • Fiance and future Queen of Sweden and Norway. • Her parents broke off the marriage because of Napoleon’s lack of fortune.

  5. Josephine • "I awake full of you. Your image and the memory of last night’s intoxicating pleasures has left no rest to my senses." ~Napoleon

  6. Josephine’s Divorce Statement (1807) With the permission of our august and dear husband, I must declare that, having no hope of bearing children who would fulfill the needs of his policies and the interests of France, I am pleased to offer him the greatest proof of attachment and devotion ever offered on this earth.

  7. Napoléon’s Divorce Statement (1807) Far from ever finding cause for complaint, I can to the contrary only congratulate myself on the devotion and tenderness of my beloved wife. She has adorned thirteen years of my life; the memory will always remain engraved on my heart.

  8. Marie Louise of Austria • Napoleon’s final love interest. • Married in 1810.

  9. Military Success • Defeated Austrian and Sardinian armies in Italy in 1797. • Napoleon returns to Paris a hero. • Next up, Britain…

  10. Strategy • Take out British interests along the Mediterranean, cut off the British Empire. • Unfortunately, even though Napoleon steamrolls Egypt, the French navy is destroyed, and Austria and Russia side with Britain.

  11. A Second Coup • Abbe Sieyes and Napoleon join forces. • Napoleon seizes complete control. • A dictator?- uses rhetoric of revolution, nationalism, imperialism, and back it with the military.

  12. SeaPower 1805: France   Britain Trafalgar (Lord Nelson: Fr. Navy lost!) Napoléon’s Major Military Campaigns

  13. Napoléon’s Major Military Campaigns -Danube-Italy 1805: France   Britain Austria Russia(3rd Coalition) • ULM: France defeated Austria. • AUSTERLITZ: France defeated Austria & Russia. Crowned “King of Italy” on May 6, 1805

  14. Napoléon’s Major Military Campaigns Confed.of theRhine 1806: France   Prussia JENA: French Troops in Berlin! BERLIN DECREES(“Continental System”) 4th Coalition created

  15. British Cartoon “Continental System” (1806-1812)

  16. Peninsular Campaign: 1807-1810 ContinentalSystem 1806: France   Spain Portugal • Portugal did not comply with the Continental System. • France wanted Spain’s support to invade Portugal. • Spain refused, so Napoleon invaded Spain as well!

  17. Napoléon’s Empire in 1810

  18. Napoléon’s Family Rules! • Jerome Bonaparte  King of Westphalia. • Joseph Bonaparte  King of Spain • Louise Bonaparte  King of Holland • Pauline Bonaparte  Princess of Italy • Napoléon Francis Joseph Charles (son) King of Rome • Elisa Bonaparte  Grand Duchess of Tuscany • Caroline Bonaparte  Queen of Naples

  19. Napoléon Invades Russia: 1812 614,000 French troops

  20. Napoléon’s Retreat from Moscow (Early 1813) 100,000 French troops retreat—40,000 survive!

  21. Napoléon Abdicates! • Allied forces occupied Paris on March 31, 1814. • Napoléon abdicated on April 6 in favor of his son, but the Allies insisted on unconditional surrender. • Napoléon abdicated again on April 11. • Treaty of Fontainbleau  exiles Napoléon to Elba with an annual income of 2,000,000 francs. • The royalists took control and restored Louis XVIII to the throne.

  22. Napoléon in Exile on Elba

  23. “The War of the 7th Coalition” Napoleon’s“100 Days” France  1815:  Britain, Russia. Prussia, Austria, Sweden, smaller German states • Napoléon escaped Elba and landed in France on March 1, 1815  the beginning of his 100 Days. • Marie Louise & his son were in the hands of the Austrians.

  24. Napoléon’s Defeat at Waterloo(June 18, 1815) Duke of Wellington Prus. General Blücher

  25. Napoléonon His Way to HisFinal Exile onSt. Helena

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