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Good Afternoon !!. NVC Rise of Napoleon Napoleon and the French Revolution Essential Question : Was Napoleon’s rise to power in line with the values of the French Revolution?. Napoleon!. Origins. Born in Corsica (1769) Italian family 1 of 8 children Short: only 5’3’’

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Good Afternoon !!

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  1. Good Afternoon!! • NVC • Rise of Napoleon • Napoleon and the French Revolution Essential Question: Was Napoleon’s rise to power in line with the values of the French Revolution?

  2. Napoleon!

  3. Origins • Born in Corsica (1769) • Italian family • 1 of 8 children • Short: only 5’3’’ • Age 14 enrolls in prestigious Paris Military Academy • “This one is smart. He has always been distinguished for his application in mathematics, and he is fairly well acquainted with history and geography. This boy would make an excellent soldier."

  4. Early Career • Served as a soldier in French Army during the Revolution • Supported the Jacobins • close friend of Augustin Robespierre • Siege of Toulon (1793) • Royalist French city supported by British • “I have no words to describe Bonaparte's merit: much technical skill, an equal amount of intelligence, and too much gallantry“—General Dugommier • Napoleon promoted to General

  5. Rise to Fame • Royalist Rebellion in Paris (October 1795) • Royalists see The Directory as weak and rebel against it • 30,000 vs. 5,000 • Napoleon in command • Scatters the Royalists with a “whiff of grapeshot” • Napoleon a hero of the Republic

  6. Commander of the Interior Italy (1796) Egypt (1798)

  7. Napoleon takes power • 1799 the Directory is struggling • Lose series of battles in Europe • Napoleon asked to return to France to protect against possible invasion • Finds the Directory to be bankrupt and unpopular • Coup d’état – sudden seizure of power

  8. Was the rise of Napoleon in line with the values of the French Revolution?

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