HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Microorganism, Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
10 Aug 2016
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Josephine de beahharnais- many love affairs that allowed them to establish power- they controlled them knowing how fragile their position was because they had no political rights. She navigated the revolution, her husband died in. 1795 and she became a widow and starting participating in the circle and having affairs with numerous people of the revolution. That is when she meetings young napoleon, and she stablilies her solution by marrying napoleon. By using her political connections, she moves napoleon up the ranks. He appears as one of the most famous revolutionary generals, mostly because of her power. Napeolon bonaparte- a revolution can neither be made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for someone to give it direction. Giving the revolution a direction or unity to the people- debate on what do we do, in a mix of civil war and there.
