Titlebook: Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution; Martyn Lyons Textbook 1994Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1994 Bri

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The Coup of Brumaire,, it had pursued the war against the First Coalition with some success. It had defeated royalist threats and was beginning to pull the Republic out of financial chaos. Yet the Republic had paid a high price for the Directory’s survival. The government’s manipulation of election results had discredit

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Republic of Notables: the Constitution of the Year 8,e first task of Bonaparte and the . was to give France a new Constitution. This necessary political ritual had several precedents. The French Revolution had generated three different constitutions: the 1791 Constitution, defining the constitutional monarchy based on limited suffrage; the Jacobin Con

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The Concordat,y defeat, one successful assassination attempt could end Bonaparte’s career. Royalists could still hold out some hope of a restoration, and veterans of the Revolution like Talleyrand and Fouché were inclined to hedge their bets against unpredictable developments. The French victory at Marengo in Pie

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,Law Codes and Lycées,h Revolution had shattered ancient assumptions about education, property rights, family law and individual freedoms: to Bonaparte fell the task of making a final pronouncement. His Civil Code provided a clear statement of the citizen’s rights and duties, in marriage and divorce, dowries, adoption an

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Art, Propaganda and the Cult of Personality,s, imperial France had no Ministry of Propaganda, and no Ministry of Information, but Napoleon himself was responsible for supervising these essential functions of government. Every morning, we are told, Napoleon had the newspapers read to him as he shaved.. Much of what they printed would not have