"Women in Napoleonic France" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Dec 2025 1:14 p.m. PST |
"The swift rise of Napoleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution of 1789 brought sweeping changes. Napoleon as General and then First Consul was in many ways a man of tradition. But he was modern minded in terms of the equality of men regardless of their origins. An advocate of meritocracy, he had no patience for the ineffective institutions of the ancien régime or the abuses of the privileged classes that rewarded neither abilities nor accomplishments. Napoleon was masterful in taking elements from both the Old Regime and the Republic and incorporating them into his new vision of a modern centralized France. Called by many the most enlightened of despots and a true son of Voltaire, he believed in talent and valued loyalty. A skeptic and a pragmatist, he sought to keep the absolute authority of the ancien régime without the wasteful trappings of the old nobility. With this aim in mind he carefully reintegrated the Catholic Church, seeing it as a tool to unify and control the population. A man who did not look kindly on independent thinkers, Napoleon put a ban on political clubs and did not hesitate to banish those who opposed him…" link
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| BillyNM | 07 Dec 2025 10:17 p.m. PST |
An advocate of meritocracy and no patience for privileged classes, unless of course they were related to him? |
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paints brigs for the British fleet.