3. The Cuop d´etat of 18 brumario gave the
goverment to a CONSULATE.
Executive power: 3 consuls
SIEYES
DUCOS
NAPOLEON: bacame the first consul of the Republic
5. CONSTITUTION YEAR III (1799):
Established the goverment of the Consulate
Gave Napoleon most of the powers of a dictartor
Ratified by referendum
6. Catholicism was the
religion of the great
majority of the French but
not the official state religion
(freedom of religion).
The State would pay
clerical salaries.
Allegory of the Concordat
Napoleon won favor of the
catholics.
7. Centralised administration
Higher education system
NAPOLEONIC CODE: new civil code:
Forbade privileges based on birth
Freedom of religion
Goverment jobs: the most qualified
8.
9. 1804: Napoleon crowned himself EMPEROR
Napoleon crowned his
wife Josephine in the
presence of Pope.
10. From 1804 to 1807 Napoleon defeated his
enemies (Prusia, Russia, Austria and Portugal).
1806: Continental System or Contiental Blockade
against British Empire
1808: French troops invaded Spain to wake
Portugal enforce the Continental System
11.
12. 1812: Napoleon started the invasion of Russia.
The beginning of the end:
Winter Russian Campaign
Peninsular War in Spain (aka Spain War of Independence)
16. Napoleon escaped from Elba
recovered the power for 3 mounths
N. was defeated by Wellington (GB)
in
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
sent to the island of Saint Helena (died 1821)
