Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0901 short lesson, about 20 seconds
After Napoleon: A Thousand-Year Order Shaken in a Generation
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The idea
The Revolution frightened Europe's elites but stayed in France; Napoleon carried it everywhere his armies went, and Italians, Germans and Poles tasted status not defined by birth. After eighteen fifteen the elites could not undo the Revolution, so they rebuilt the old order with limited concessions.
In practice
A thousand-year order gone in a generation, the anchor says.
Where people slip
The century's start, not its story.
Your place on the trail
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