Napoleon Bonaparte
Division and Democracy in France
Objectives
•
List the domestic and foreign policies of Napoleon III.
•
Analyze the impact of the Dreyfus affair and other
challenges of the Third Republic.
•
Describe the French government’s steps toward reform in
the early 1900s.
Terms and People
Napoleon III
• _________________:
nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte;
took power after the revolution of 1848; achieved reforms
in France, but foreign policy failures led to his capture and
exile
Suez Canal
• _______________:
the
canal
that
links
the
Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean
provisional
• _______________:
temporary
premier
• _______________:
the prime minister
premier
provisional
Suez Canal
Napoleon III
Terms and People (continued)
•
•
– an alliance of various political parties that
join together to run a government
Coalition
Dreyfus affair
– the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus on
spying; based on false evidence due to anti-Semitism in
the French government
Libel
•
– the knowing publication of false and
damaging information
•
– the movement devoted to rebuilding a
Jewish state in Palestine
Zionism
libel
coalition
Zionism
Dreyfus affair
• People of all classes
were attracted by his
name and he was
Napoleon’s nephew
and he created the
Second Empire
Napoleon III
Louis Napoleon
He attracted the working
classes by presenting himself as
a man who cared about social
issues such as poverty and at
the same time, his famous
name, linked with order and
past French glory, helped him
with conservatives . by 1852,
he had proclaimed himself
________________
Capitalism
Monarchy
Constitutional
monarchy
Republic
• People of all classes
were attracted by his
name and he was
Napoleon’s nephew
and he created the
Second Empire
Napoleon III
Louis Napoleon
He attracted the working
classes by presenting himself as
a man who cared about social
issues such as poverty and at
the same time, his famous
name, linked with order and
past French glory, helped him
with conservatives . by 1852,
he had proclaimed himself
________________
HOW NAPOLEON III ROSE TO THE POWER?
How Napoleon III rose to the power?
After the Revolution of 1848 , he won
elections as president and proclaimed
himself emperor by a plebiscite, a
majority of French people confirmed his
actions .
On the surface, the Second
Empire, under Napoleon III
rule looked like a
constitutional monarchy.
What Changes Napoleon III put in place? And do
you think his domestic policy helped or hurt
France ?
- He limited liberty
- He promoted economic growth
1.
Franco-Prussian War
2.
Austrian Hapsburg prince placed on the throne
of Mexico by Napoleon III, overthrown by
Mexican Nationalists 1860's.
2.
Maximilian
4.
Canal linking Mediterranean with the Red Sea
and thus the Indian Ocean, opening trade in Asia
and Africa to European goods.
3.
Napoleon III
9.
Prime Minister or President of France, the real
political power holder.
4.
Suez Canal
6
workers, socialists who wanted a new socialist
order,
building
France
into
a
loose
confederation of communes.
5.
Paris Commune
8.
The lower house of the Third Republic, elected
by Universal Male Suffrage.
6.
Communards
1.
France was defeated by Germany,
France's domination of Europe in 1871.
7.
The Third Republic
3.
Leader of France 1848-1871, a virtual dictator
with a constitutional monarchy.
8.
Chamber of Deputies
9.
Premier
10.
The Senate
7.
10
5.
ending
1871-1941 2 house legislature to govern France.
The upper house of the Third Republic, with the
Chamber of Deputies, elected the figurehead
President of the Republic.
Radicals who wanted an end to Monarchy
How did his foreign policy help bring an end
to his reign ?
Challenges of the Third Republic
Workers set up blockades against the army
Coalition Governments
Unlike Britain or the US, France has many parties
representing various views.
•Some
examples:
royalists,
constitutionalist
monarchists, moderate republicans, radicals and
more
In order to govern and win a majority on issues,
different parties formed alliances or coalitions to
control votes and elect a premier and form a
cabinet.
Coalitions can be unstable because if one party
leaves the coalition, the government can lose its
majority. In the first 10 years of the Third Republic,
50 coalition government formed and fell
What Challenges did the Third Republic
face during its 70 years in power?
The uprising of the Paris Commune ; the
difficulty of having many political parties ,
which led to weak coalition governments;
and scandals in the government.
1.
Coalitions
2.
Georges Boulanger
3.
Alfred Dreyfus
4.
Anti-Semitism
5.
Emile Zola
6.
Theodor Herzl
7.
The Jewish State
8.
Zionism
7.
Hertzl's book calling for Jews to form their own
state where they would have the rights that
European countries wouldn't allow them.
6.
Hungarian Jewish journalist in France who helped
to form Zionism and called for a Jewish state.
8.
Movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in
Palestine.
2.
Accused of plotting to overthrow the Third
Republic,
he
rallied
royalists
and
ultranationalists eager for revenge on
Germany.
1.
Alliances among different parties seeking
power in government.
3.
Accused of spying for Germany, this French
Officer was exiled without a fair trial, later
pardoned.
5.
French novelist who defended Dreyfus and said he
had been made a scapegoat.
4.
Were often members of the lower middle class
who felt insecure in their social and economic
positions.
Napoleon III would bring
France neither glory nor an
empire?
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