| France | Europe | Tennis Oath Court | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberalism |
• the idea of wanting civil rights within a nation, such as publication, expression, assembly, religion and speech | • The Napoleonic Code supported the notions of liberty, equality and fraternity spelt out by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens
• But Napoleon once said, with much pride, “What the French people needed was equality and not liberty.” | • Napoleon’s governance of the peoples or countries in his highhanded rules → rise of nationalism of those peoples or countries
• The Germans were determined to overthrow Napoleon → unite themselves to form a big and strong country → founded their own nation in 1870, known as the German Unification | • Everyone could rule France | | Nationalism
• the strong desire of ethnic groups to get independence from foreign rule, to form a nation on their own
• those countries that already are independence nations themselves, for national greatness and glory | • Napoleon ended feudalism, carried out land reform, provided education, organized regional laws into the Code of Napoleon and gave a fair tax system → people love France
• Napoleon won the French Revolutionary Wars → protected France
• Napoleon conquered many countries → brought glories
• French accepted him as their Emperor, in 1804
• As Napoleon fell in 1815, French were greatly saddened | • Napoleon gave civil rights to places where he conquered (eg German and Italian states) to begin with.
• Napoleon used high-handed rules towards his subjects in Europe against their will, with the passage of time. | • Jacobins (Robespierre) strict to kill betrayer of France |
As decided at the Congress of Viennae, the map of Europe were redrawn after the fall of Napoleon
The statesmen who gathered together to discuss how to redo the revolution tended to use suppression of the ‘fruits’ of Fr Rev and Nap
The idea had never stop activating in the hearts and minds, resulting in many revolutions sweeping across different European countries in the 1830s and in 1848
In results of nationalism shown in French Revolution, people unite togther and form a big country, for example, the nation of Italy and Germany.