HIS241H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)
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In the last 80 years, france was engaged in 40 foreign wars. Unwilling to compromise: first estate, second estate, third estate, the national assembly - third estate, they represent 90% of the people, they made the national assembly, later, the clergyman too joined, the tennis court oath. > said yes: troops surrounded parliament force them to agree in a new system - dictatorship. In 4 years, became dictatorship: napoleon declared himself the first consul, out manoeuvering other supporters, got rid of consulate, became sole commander of france as a state and political system, 1804 declare himself a emperor. Napoleonic france: after he overthrow the directory, first thi(cid:374)g he do is to co(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ue the revolutio(cid:374). (cid:894)" i a(cid:373) the revolutio(cid:374)! "(cid:895: first of all, he made a lot of administrative changes, create new territorial departments from 83 to 130 because of his conquest of. European territory: opened first bank of france.
