AP Euro: Napoleonic Code

Concordat

1801 agreement with the Pope engineered by Napoleon to end the rift after the 1790 Civil Constitution of the Clergy. This recognized France as largely Catholic but guaranteed religious freedom. The Church agreed to give up claims to lands the revolutionaries had seized and sold.

Napoleonic Code

One of Napoleon's most substantial achievements was the Civil Code of 1804, which centralized the disorganized body of French laws, safeguarded property rights, and upheld conservative attitudes toward women and labor organizations.

The Hundred Days

When Napoleon escaped from exile at Elba and returned to France in March 1815, he led an army into Paris, causing Louis XVIII to flee and Napoleon to rule France again until Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Prussia sent troops to stop him.

Waterloo

Battle on June 18,1815. The allied powers under the direction of the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon, who then abdicated to the Bourbon monarch and was again exiled, this time to St.Helena, where he died in 1821.

The Consulate

First five years of Napoleon's rule as dictator after his 1799 coup d' etat in which he had sole power to propose new laws that the legislature could only approve or reject.