Napoleon and European

Restoration
Shih-chieh (Jay) Su
Jay.Su@delval.edu
Napoleon’s Imperial Rules
 Centralization of
imperial power
– Council of State
– Bank of France
– State School System
 Napoleonic Code
– Patriarchal Soceity
 Imperial Hierarchy
– Legion of Honor
Napoleon’s Conquest
 Reinventing the
Roman Empire
 Liberator?
 Resistance inspired
national feelings
 Napoleon and Grand
Army retreated from
Russia
 1815, Battle of
Waterloo
Congress of Vienna (1814-1815)
 Austrian Chancellor
Prince Klemens von
Metternich
 Restoration of dynastic
legitimacy
 Balance of inter-
national power in
Europe
 Concert of Europe
 German Confederation
(1815)
Restoration Europe
 Conservative
principles of
monarchical legitimacy
 Conservatism:
– Monarchies over
republics
– Tradition over revolution
– Established religion
over Enlightenment
skepticism
Liberal Revolts
 Liberalism
– Enlightenment ideas
– Boutgeoisie faith in
science
 British Reform Bill of
1832
 Nationalist movements