{"id":23928,"date":"2026-09-24T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=23928"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:50:37","slug":"back-where-they-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/09\/24\/back-where-they-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Back Where They Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey guys! Today we are going to talk about the things that happened after the French Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the Reign of Terror, France struggled under the Directory (a five member executive government).\u00a0 The Directory faced corruption, political conflict, economic difficulties, and continuing war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Napoleon Bonaparte gained fame through successful military campaigns and became increasingly influential. In 1799, Napoleon helped overthrow the Directory in the Coup of 18 Brumaire. He became First Consul and gradually concentrated political authority in his own hands. In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French, showing that the Revolution had moved from monarchy to republic to a new form of personal rule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Napoleon made a lot of changes, some were a benefit to the citizens and some weren\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Napoleonic Code was created to have a more uniform legal system. It strengthened equality before the law for men, protected property, and weakened remnants of feudal<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">privilege.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Napoleon strengthened the national government and appointed officials to administer France more consistently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state expanded secondary education and created institutions designed to train officials and military officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Napoleon reached an agreement with the Catholic Church that restored religious stability while keeping the state in a strong position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Political opposition was restricted, censorship was used, and Napoleon controlled much of the political system. Revolutionary equality did not mean political democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Napoleon\u2019s spread of liberalism\u00a0 he introduced many ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Property Rights \u2014 Private property became more protected<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merit \u2014 Government and military advancement became<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">merit based<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Administration \u2014 Government became centralized<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contradiction \u2014 Legal liberalism didn\u2019t mean political liberalism. He censored his opposition and ruled as an emperor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Nationalism \u2014 a political idea and feeling of strong loyalty to one&#8217;s country. It holds that a group of people who share the same culture, language, or history should rule themselves in their own independent land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">German lands \u2014 Resistance to French rule encouraged ideas of greater unity among German speaking nations. The lead to the eventual unification of Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A bunch of powerful people that didn\u2019t like Napoleon came together and made the \u201cCongress of Vienna\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Congress met after Napoleon\u2019s first defeat and continued after his final defeat in 1815. Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and eventually France were central to the settlement. They wanted to prevent another Napoleon so they redrew borders and restored monarchies. The settlement showed that Europe has conservative fears about more revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Congress of Vienna aimed to create stability, create balance, establish nationalism, and establish liberalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s it for today guys.. See you next time!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Hey guys! Today we are going to talk about the things that happened after the French Revolution. \u00a0 After the Reign of Terror, France struggled under the Directory (a five member executive government).\u00a0 The Directory faced corruption, political conflict, economic difficulties, and continuing war. \u00a0 Napoleon Bonaparte gained fame through successful military campaigns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/09\/24\/back-where-they-started\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back Where They Started&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23986,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23928\/revisions\/23986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}