1. Napoleon’s decision to repeal his blockage decrees in response to Macon’s Bill No. 2 demonstrated how he had been successfully manipulated…
4. Read Napoleon’s quote from Wolloch (at bottom). What was so appealing about Napoleon? What did he offer?…
In a country renown for revolution, a time of looming reformation, and an age of rebirth, the story of The Return of Martin Guerre finds its inception as a historical legal study of the day-to-day occurrences of the lives of peasants in sixteenth-century France. Natalie Zemon Davis crafts her account of the famous story from a historical perspective infused with her own psychological inferences, legal case studies, and factual details. Throughout her dissertation on the case of Martin Daguerre, Arnauld du Tilh, and Bertandre de Rols, Davis showcases a character analysis drawn on various primary resources found within the same time period, yielding an empirical recollection of history flavored with her own suppositions. Her writing results in a realistic rendition of the story of the Guerre family rooted in fact and speculation, appealing to both the historian and the inquisitive scholar. The inception of the Protestant Reformation, the newfound ideals of the Renaissance, and the institutions and expectations of French peasant society all aggregate into a plausible function in which historian Natalie Zemon Davis both implicitly and explicitly provides a valid characterization conducive to the understanding of the actual historical figures displayed within her text. In effect, Davis's anthropological approach in her retelling of the story of The Return of Martin Guerre is successful though not entirely accurate in giving an in-depth psychological character analysis of Martin Guerre and Bertrandre de Rols pertinent to the original texts of Judge Jean de Coras.…
The are two sides to every story. The French Revolution brought significant change to France during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was a period of time that produced a remodeling of the French Government system, an Enlightened mindset, and the rise of a new prominent ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte. Emperor Napoleon, as he so deemed himself, initially took on his duties by trying to bring together what had been a much divided nation. He made concessions with both the left (the constitutionalists) and the right (the monarchists). His concessions earned him respect from many, however, as his power grew and grew, Napoleon developed a tendency to rely strongly on his military to gain power. His militaristic eagerness to monopolize Europe earned him much respect and praise from the French people, but very infrequently do we recognize those individuals that served in the military to carry through Napoleon’s aggressive orders. Those who fought for Napoleon’s success received very little in return; much to lack of motivation. Fortunately for the world, Jakob Walter’s story as a conscript for Napoleon’s Grand Army has been public for the world. His powerful accounts of the pitiful conditions that conscripts endured during their wartime travels would give many a different opinion of the “Great” Napoleon. As mentioned earlier, there are two sides to every story.…
misconduct to the country of France, I can safely say that Napoleon has been proven…
To most of Europe, Napoleon was just another conqueror trying to expand his territories, but to the people of France, he was a great leader; he “restored peace and order at home” (Kagan, Ozment, Turner, Frank 586). Restoring order to France was one of his greatest domestic achievements; the people loved him for his support in helping them win their fight for equal rights “to achieve wealth, status, and security for their property” (Kagan, Ozment, Turner, Frank 586).…
The day was April 10th 1734 and Montreal was on fire. Undoubtedly back then, Montreal was a very different place than it is today; it was a trade and military town of about 2000 people. Canada would still have 100 years before she became a nation and it was a time when Montreal’s social class mirrored that of its indigenous home France. Slavery was very much a part of everyday society and many citizens had slaves of African and Amerindian descent. No one on that day could have possibly foreseen what was to come and the replications it would have for centuries to come. It was an unusually mild Saturday evening and the people who had attended evening prayer were beginning to make their way home. Among them was Thérèse de Couagne, widow of François Poulin de Francheville and the owner of Angélique a slave of African American decent who was born in Portugal and later sold into New France. “At seven the sentry sounded the alarm ‘fire!’”, that evening a devastating fire occurred in Montréal that destroyed a hospital and 45 houses on rue Saint-Paul. Someone was to blame for this catastrophe and it was Angelique. After being tried and convicted of setting fire to her owner’s home, burning much of what is now referred to as Old Montreal, she was hanged. In order to get a stronger understanding of crime and punishment in New-France, one must examine the trial in a much more in depth context.…
In order to fully address these questions one must differentiate between the Dreyfus case; the arrest, prosecution and sentence of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, and the subsequent Affair which grew out of the case. In answering the questions posed, one will discuss the effects of both the case and the resulting affair on Dreyfus and those immediately involved with the case. One will also discuss the effects of the Dreyfus case and the Affair on French society at the time which split into two opposing factions, the Dreyfusards and the anti-Dreyfusards. The case was simple: in December 1894 Dreyfus, a Jewish officer serving in the French artillery, was found guilty of spying for the Germans and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, a French penal colony in French Guiana. The Affair came about when, over the next few years, discovery of new evidence led a number of the French people to realise that a serious miscarriage of justice had taken place.…
Napoleon Bonaparte reinforced the idea that he was the child of the revolution by introducing the innovative Napoleonic Code which set out to unify France. Bonaparte, a certified pragmatist pleased the masses of France and gained support by fighting for their concerns and rights. At a time of chaos where France lacked foundation, Napoleon introduced a Civil Code. The code was a written statement of what the revolution stood for, unification. Is it not an absurd and terrible thing that what is true in one village is false in another? What kind of barbarism is it that citizens must live under different laws? ... When you travel in this kingdom you change legal systems as often as you change horses?" The Code introduced by napoleon changed the landscape of continental Europe. Before the code, laws relied heavily on customs and traditions…
The debate of whether Napoleon is an enlightened despot or a founder of the modern state has proven difficult to evaluate since there are valid arguments and supporting evidence for both perspectives. In one aspect, he can be seen as enlightened dictator who contradicted the principles of the revolution. In another aspect, he can be seen as a liberator of people and a unifier of the French nation. I will argue that Napoleon Bonaparte was more an enlightened despot than a founder of modern state using his coronation, the Civil Code, and him as a dictator who scarified millions of lives as examples for my…
During Napoleon’s reign as Emperor of the French Empire he made laws, or a set of codes, that applied to all of France. He enacted laws that protected the people, promoted religious tolerance and took away the serfdom and feudalism systems, all of which gave people more freedom over their land to support themselves and their families. The well-being of the people was compromised since the workers lacked many rights, this being evident by the fact that trade unions and strikes were illegal, which encouraged employer abuse.…
At first glance the Code Napoleon sounds amazing, but the law codes were definitely misconceiving as they held within them a lot of bad things as well. The Code Napoleon also favored the interests of the state over the individual, so again we can link it back to a monarchy-type rule. Again, going back to the law codes bringing back a monarchy-type rule, the emperor (Napoleon) had full right to appoint judges, dukes, and other high titles. More barbarically, the law codes also allowed for the use of torture in trials, furthermore it gave Napoleon the ability to be judge, jury and executioner if Napoleon did not get his way or the results he desired. By re-instituting monarchy type rule, Bonaparte had undone the efforts of the French Revolution.…
“Guests of the Nation presents us with a seemingly absurd situation – made all too real by the plethora of mundane detail” (Korner). Bonaparte helps us draw in our surroundings while making us privy to information, information that would inculpate him, and in turn we give him our trust.…
Throughout this novella, we see Napoleon making decisions in his own interest rather than the interest of others. His mind has been poisoned by…
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