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Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the peace of Lune-ville was concluded, and the boundariesof France were once more extended tothe Rhine. England was the only country whicnrefused to recognize the various Italianand German conquests of France ; and,with the exception of a brief period ofpeace, England remained the implaca-ble foe of Bonaparte from the days ofthe consulate to his defeat at Waterloo. 143 144 FRANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Every period of respite from war wasemployed by the First Consul in foster-ing trade and industry, and in oblitera-ting both in private and public life thestains left by the Reign of Terror. In 1804, on an appeal by universalsuffrage to the nation, Bonaparte wasproclaimed Emperor. The Pope came hands. For a time Napoleons influ-ence with the weakened powers of theContinent succeeded in maintaining aninjurious system of blockade againstEngland ; and, except in the Peninsula,his arms were everywhere victorious.His marriage, too, with the ArchduchessMaria Louisa, a direct descendant of
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BONAPARTE DISSOLVING THE to Paris to crown him and his wife Jo-sephine. Napoleon took the crownfrom the hands of the Pope, placed iton his own head, and then crowned theEmpress Josephine, who knelt beforehim. A new nobility was rapidlycreated, and the relatives and favoritesof the emperor received vanquishedkingdoms and principalities at his COUNCIL OF FIVE HUNDRED. the ancient House of Hapsburg, 1810,seemed to give to his throne the pres-tige of birth, which alone it had lacked.He kept up the Democratic impulse ofthe Revolution as much as was wantedto drive his engine of war. His tacticswould have availed him little againstthe successive European coalitions hadhe not adopted the principle of national

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