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Title: Napoleon


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Napoleon
2
Setting the Stage
  • Reign of Terror allows Napoleon to come to
    power
  • 20,000-40,000 executed

3
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?

4
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

5
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

6
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.

7
Napoleon vs. Frankensteins Monster
  • Napoleon is The Monster created by the French
    Revolution
  • Rousseau?

8
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

9
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?
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