Napoleon was a brilliant leader who had great dreams for progressive change. He was a general, who quickly rose to power overthrowing the directory. He set up a new government, eventually taking complete power, becoming the new emperor of France. During the French Revolution, Napoleon's role is complicated because he ended the revolution, causing a new one. As an emperor, he conserved the ideal parts of the revolution while also adding new reforms that posed great benefits for citizens. During his reign, he took away elements of the revolution by ceasing the growth of social reforms. Although he took away social reforms, Napoleon’s most prominent achievement was to create better laws that were more descriptive than the previous laws. The Napoleonic
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Napoleon Bonaparte enacted a new legal foundation for France called the “Napoleonic Code”. The Napoleonic code was the first of France’s logical set of laws that codified several laws concerning many unstable topics like Individual rights, colonial rights, families, etc. The code also assured secularization of society, something France had not known prior before. Before the French Revolution, France has been controlled by the feudal order, but now the new code removed the feudal order. The code also sought to assure individual freedom.
“The new code provided complete separation of church and state [...] The privileges of the clergy were removed, and religious freedom was …show more content…
Napoleon’s popularity increased when all these reforms were stable, assembling citizens to give him an incumbency in power than all the other emperor’s since the French Revolution. In addition, Napoleon was a great leader because he created a purposeful code that inflicted well upon society.
Body 2: Napoleon also improved ordinary lives by fulfilling simple reforms in the society that eventually became major contributions to France’s new upholding.
“Napoleon overhauled the French court system completely. He created a system of prefects, which were chief administrators in charge of upholding the law”.
“France created a new educational system. The heart of any middle class educational system is secondary education which is where Napoleon concentrated his reforms”.
“Roads and canals tie a nation together and allow trade to move smoothly throughout a country or a region. Throughout his time in power, Napoleon undertook a number of important transportation projects”.
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Napoleon Bonaparte enacted a new legal foundation for France called the “Napoleonic Code”. The Napoleonic code was the first of France’s logical set of laws that codified several laws concerning many unstable topics like Individual rights, colonial rights, families, etc. The code also assured secularization of society, something France had not known prior before. Before the French Revolution, France has been controlled by the feudal order, but now the new code removed the feudal order. The code also sought to assure individual freedom.
“The new code provided complete separation of church and state [...] The privileges of the clergy were removed, and religious freedom was …show more content…
Napoleon’s popularity increased when all these reforms were stable, assembling citizens to give him an incumbency in power than all the other emperor’s since the French Revolution. In addition, Napoleon was a great leader because he created a purposeful code that inflicted well upon society.
Body 2: Napoleon also improved ordinary lives by fulfilling simple reforms in the society that eventually became major contributions to France’s new upholding.
“Napoleon overhauled the French court system completely. He created a system of prefects, which were chief administrators in charge of upholding the law”.
“France created a new educational system. The heart of any middle class educational system is secondary education which is where Napoleon concentrated his reforms”.
“Roads and canals tie a nation together and allow trade to move smoothly throughout a country or a region. Throughout his time in power, Napoleon undertook a number of important transportation projects”.
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