Napoleon Bonaparte

Gaining the title “the Preserver of the Revolution”, Napoleon Bonaparte transformed French society’s structure, while leaving a legacy of cultural memory. To suit Napoleon’s imperial form of rule, he adapted the key goals of the Revolution, including liberty, equality, and fraternity. Sovereignty now belonged to the people of the nation with the abolishment of feudalism. Napoleon incorporated sovereignty in his master plan ideology through the process of containment, a more centralized governance in order to establish a system of behavior among the population. Many historian scholars dispute whether Napoleon protected or betrayed the ideals of the French Revolution, but it is certain he consolidated the principles into rule and culture. He embraced the theoretical form of equality by institutionalizing the French Revolutionary principles in three ways: he implemented political strategies, controlled the mass through educational, economic, and civil systems, and created the government framework necessary to oversee and limit the amount of change permitted.

Implemented Political Strategies:

Napoleon would be remembered for his legacy in French history as distinguished militarily. He was placed within a position of a group of Revolutionaries, where fraternal brotherhood was prevalent, enabling him to change the government internally. The old order of hierarchies was vulnerable to dislocation and disorientation of classes. Napoleon sought to progressively balance the power in degrees by constructing a foundation to build from. Starting out as Revolutionary ideals, Napoleon crystalized the principles to become political strategies. To implement his plan, he used an essential mechanism of control to make a more liberal state. He put ...

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...ies and countries he preserved a sense of fraternal order throughout the empire. This created governmental oversight and restricted the amount change.

Conclusion:

Napoleon Bonaparte institutionalized French Revolutionary ideals with using his approach to using ideology. He applied political strategies, used educational, economic, and civil systems to control the French mass, and created framework to oversee and limit governmental change. Involving liberty, equality, and fraternity, he consolidated these key Revolutionary principles into law to establish a concise system of behavior spread among the population, furthering his imperial form of rule. Napoleon’s broad transformations had a major influence on nation building and governmental formation throughout Europe, which memorialized the Napoleon legacy and led historians today to study cultural memory in theory.