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05 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - to ensure his regime would continue
        
        based on several reasons
        
        his successes abroad
        
        internal stability after a decade of chaos
        
        the consolidation of his power
        
        fear of conspiracies against him
  - - - considered that he was not a sovereign
        
        his legitimacy came from the French Revolution
    - - Napoleon’s Empire marked the reform of the inherited political framework
        
        the starting point of the modern French State
  - - - was the model for subsequent legal codes
        
        ensured the equality of all citizens before the law
        
        prohibited torture, and definitively separated aspects of civil life, such as marriage and divorce, from the control of the Church.
    - - the Consulate, he founded the Central Bank of France to centralise the minting of money
    - - he persecuted all opposition
        
        This came both from supporters of the Bourbon dynasty
        
        who wanted to restore it, and from Jacobins and Republicans
    - - reforming the university and by creating secondary schools (during the Consulate) and high schools
    - - such as the abolition of slavery and the separation of powers.
    - - creating a Court of Accounts to oversee public finances and drawing up a budget with forecasts of government expenses and income.
    - - as he controlled the executive
        
        legislative powers, and the appointment of judges.
- - - - coalitions that attacked France
        
        This helps understand another essential characteristic
        
        of the Napoleonic Empire, its expansive nature
  - - - In fact, he tried to create a new world order in Europe
        
        in which France enjoyed hegemonic power
        
        bringing back concepts from the times of Louis XIV.
  - - - meaning that no British ship could dock in European ports
        
        The British economy suffered, but it did not collapse
- - - - and the interminable war in Spain led to Napoleon’s defeat
      - and exile in 1814