NAPOLEON’S RULE OF FRANCE

- placated bourgeoisie - promised them gov’t jobs

- placated workers & peasants - placed tariff on imported goods to protect French business from

competition

- National Bank to help businesses

- set low prices on food staples for the poor

- let peasants keep land won during Rev.

Napoleonic Europe, 1812

Elements of Dictatorship

- seized control of newspapers

- secret police arrested opposition figures

- banned political liberty, elections

- crowned himself Emperor

Terms you need to know:

Concordat of 1801 - Nap. compromise w/ Church

Battle of Austerlitz (1805) - Nap. victory over Austria

Trafalgar (1805) - Brit. naval victory over Nap.

Continental System - Nap. econ. boycott of Britain

Battle of Leipzig (1814) - Nap. defeated, Paris captured by coalition of Pr., Rus., Aus., Sw.

Battle of Waterloo - Nap’s final defeat by Br. & Prussia

The Hundred Days- Napoleon’s brief reign after returning from his first exile

FRENCH RULE - a mixed bag for conquered states

BENEFITS:- reduced privileges of the clergy & nobility

- set up Napoleonic Code- reformed tax codes - more fair

- promoted public education- religious toleration

- merit-based hirings in gov’t

BAD:- forced conscription to fill ranks of French army

- pilfered resources for French industries- once viewed as liberator, then as a tyrant