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Visual History of the World
(CONTENTS)
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The Modern Era
1789 - 1914
In Europe, the revolutionary transformation of the ruling systems
and state structures began with a bang: In 1789 the French
Revolution broke out in Paris, and its motto "Liberte, Egalite,
Fraternite"—Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood—took on an irrepressible
force. A fundamental reorganization of society followed the French
Revolution. The ideas behind the revolution were manifest in
Napoleon's Code Civil, which he imposed on many European nations.
The 19th century also experienced a transformation of society from
another source: The Industrial Revolution established within society
a poorer working class that stood in opposition to the merchant and
trading middle class. The nascent United States was shaken by an
embittered civil war. The economic growth that set in following that
war was accompanied by the development of imperialist endeavors and
its rise to the status of a Great Power.
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Liberty Leading the People,
allegory of the 1830 July revolution that deposed the French
monarchy,
with Marianne as the personification of liberty,
contemporary painting by Eugene Delacroix.
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see also:
Between Two
Revolutions
(From David to Delacroix)
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Napoleonic Domination
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1792 - 1814
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Napoléon Bonaparte in Art
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Bonaparte and the Council of Five Hundred at St. Cloud, 10th November
1799, by
Francois Bouchot
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The Persian Envoy Mirza Mohammed Reza-Qazvini meets with Napoleon I
at the Finkenstein castle, 27 April 1807,
by Francois Mulard
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Napoleon reviews his troops shortly before the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
(14 October 1806),
by Horace Vernet
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Napoleon in Tilsit.
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Emperor by Marie-Victoire Jaquotot
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Napoleon Bonaparte im Alter von 16.
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El triunfo de Bonaparte
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Napoléon
Bonaparte abdicated in Fontainebleau, by Paul Delaroche
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Napoleon awards the Cross of the Legion of Honor, painting by J.-B.
Debret, 1812
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Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène.
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Josephine fainting after being
told by Napoleon he will decree a divorce (to seek a male heir and royal
alliance),
by Bosselman - Chasselat.
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Napoleon Bonaparte as a young officer
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Ducis
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Napoleon Bonaparte on Board the 'Bellerophon' in Plymouth Sound
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Napoleon Bonaparte. Decorating
the Grenadier Lazareff at Tilsit
by Jean Baptiste Debret
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Napoleon near Borodino, by Vasiliy Vereshagin
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Napoleon and Marshal Loriston, "Peace at all costs!"
Vasily Vereshchagin, 1900
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Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo
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Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo by Ernest Crofts.
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Napoleon on his death bed, by
Horace Vernet, 1826
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Scene of Napoleon Bonaparte's Death on St Helena.
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