1) Napoleon's Authoritarian State

2) Napolean came to power (1799)

2) Coup d'état appeared to be last in a long line of upheavals
3) Ended the Revolution
3) Set France on a new course toward an authoritarian state
2) To achieve his goals
3) Compromised with Catholic church, Exiled aristocrats, Tempered
principles of Enlightenment and Revolution, supported architecture and
sciences.

1) From Republic to Empire

2) Constitution of 1799
3) Installed Napoleon as First Consul
4) Had right to choose the Council of State
5) Made all the laws
5) Eliminated direct elections of deputies
5) Denied independent powers to the three houses
2) Napoleon signed a agreement with Pope Pius VII (1801)
3) Let Catholics back into the regime
4) Catholicism was recognized as religion of majority of French
citizens
4) Validated sale of church lands during the Revolution
2) Napoleon continued to centralize state power
3)Created the Bank of France
4) Appointed Prefects
5) Supervised local affairs in each region
3) Government managed
4) Military-style education at the new lycées for boys sometimes girls
4) Censored/policed to limit opposition
5) Censored newspapers, operas, and plays
2) Named himself First Consul for life (1802)
3) December of 1804, he crowned himself emperor
3) Napoleon was reproduced on coins, on public monuments, paintings
3) Building projects
4) Arc de Triomphe and the Stock Exchange
3) Most trusted officials helped him rule
3) Bureaucracy was based on a patron-client relationship
3) Reinstituted a social hierarchy
4) Rewarded merit and talent regardless of birth.

1) New Paternalism: The Civil Code

2) Napoleonic Code
3) Unified system of law for France, assured property rights, guaranteed
religious liberty, established a uniform system of law (provided equal
treatment for all adult males), affirmed the right of men to choose their
professions
3) Diminished women's rights
3) Adopted in many European, Latin American countries, French colony
of Louisiana
3) Reasserted male domination over women
 3) Required fathers to provide for their children's welfare.
3) Encouraged private charities for indigent mothers
4) Made it easier to abandon children anonymously
3) Workers were required to carry a card attesting to their good conduct
3) Workers organizations were prohibited
2) Arbitration boards (1806) to settle labor disputes, but they treated
workers as minors and demanded that they be represented by foremen and
shop superintendents. Limitations on workers' rights won Napoleon the
support of French business.

Patronage of Science and Intellectual Life, pp. 793-795

Napoleon promoted scientific inquiry, especially if it served practical
purposes. During his reign, experiments with balloons led to the discovery of
laws about the expansion of gases, and research on fossil shells prepared the
way for new theories of evolutionary change later in the century. Surgeon
Dominique-Jean Larrey developed new techniques of battlefield amputation
and medical care, winning appointment as an officer in the Legion of Honor
and becoming a baron. While he encouraged scientists, Napoleon considered
most writers useless or dangerous. Madame de Staël (1766-1817), like many
of the country's talented writers, had to live in exile. Her novel Corinne
(1807) criticized the regime by focusing on a brilliant woman thwarted by the
French patriarchal system. Even though Napoleon restored the authority of
the state and of religion, many Catholics and royalists criticized him.
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) believed that Napoleon did not
properly defend Christian values against the Enlightenment's emphasis on
reason. In his Genius of Christianity (1802), Chateaubriand argued that
Napoleon did not understand the mystical power of faith.