Napoleon's empire

• In all territories occupied by Napoleon, absolutism was abolished and constitutional regimes were installed
• Napoleon's goal was the creation of a French empire by incorporating conquered territories and governing some through his family members
• Napoleon controlled France from 1799 to 1815, starting as consul and becoming emperor in 1804
• Napoleon was definitively defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and was imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena until he died in 1821
• Re-establishing relations with the Catholic Church


  Concordat of 1801
• The decline of the Napoleonic Empire began due to the impossibility of occupying Russia, difficulties in Spain, and the formation of a new European coalition led by Great Britain which occupied Paris in 1814
• Napoleon consolidated a new France by ensuring the education of civil servants and founding public schools
• Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804 and began the conquest of Europe with a large army using new, effective military methods
• Spain was invaded in 1808


  José Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, was made king
• Countries and territories under Napoleon's control

  • France
  • Spain
  • Denmark
  • Holland
  • Prussia
  • Austrian Empire
  • Italy
  • Grand Duchy of Warsaw
  • Illyrian Provinces
  • Etruria
  • Papal States
  • Montenegro
  • Sicily
  • Naples
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Ottoman Empire
• The Consulate (1799-1804)


  • Stipulated in a new constitution, limited freedoms, imposed censorship, Napoleon appointed as First Consul, essentially a personalist dictatorship