Good Morning!!

1. NVC

2. Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte– Document Analysis

Essential Question: Was Napoleon’s rise inline with the values of the French Revolution?

Homework: French Rev Storybook due FRIDAY

Napoleon!

Origins• Born in Corsica (1769)

– Italian family– 1 of 8 children– Short: only 5’3’’

• Age 14 enrolls in prestigious Paris Military Academy– “This one is smart. He has

always been distinguished for his application in mathematics, and he is fairly well acquainted with history and geography. This boy would make an excellent soldier."

Early Career• Served as a soldier in French

Army during the Revolution– Supported the Jacobins– close friend of Augustin

Robespierre

• Siege of Toulon (1793)– Royalist French city

supported by British– “I have no words to describe

Bonaparte's merit: much technical skill, an equal amount of intelligence, and too much gallantry“—General Dugommier

– Napoleon promoted to General

Rise to Fame• Royalist Rebellion in

Paris (October 1795)– Royalists see The

Directory as weak and rebel against it

• 30,000 vs. 5,000– Napoleon in command– Scatters the Royalists

with a “whiff of grapeshot”

– Napoleon a hero of the Republic

Commander of the InteriorItaly (1796)

Egypt (1798)

Napoleon takes power

• 1799 the Directory is struggling– Lose series of battles in

Europe

• Napoleon asked to return to France to protect against possible invasion– Finds the Directory to be

bankrupt and unpopular– Coup d’état – sudden

seizure of power

Was the rise of Napoleon in line with the values of the French Revolution?

Public vs. Private

• Two Scenarios. How might you say different things?– A teacher walks up to you face to face and asks

what you think of their class– A teacher gives you an anonymous survey at the

end of the year that asks what you think of their class