InNO+samuelguo0801+9.22.2010



This is the tomb of Napoleon right now. When Napoleon died in St. Helens, he was buried there. Then the British allowed his body to be reburied in France. There, he was buried in Invalidies Church, before he was transfered to this tomb made of precious stone.

Notes: > Summary
 * Traces of the Revolutionary Era
 * Trafalgar Square
 * Waterloo station
 * Names of streets named after french generals in battles during the revolution
 * Metric system
 * The European flags based on the tricolor flag
 * Liberalism
 * The idea of giving people liberty and equality through a constitution
 * Even though the old rulers came back and went back to ruling the old fashioned way, people now had an idea of liberty
 * Million of Europeans became liberals, and wanting constitution rights
 * Nationalism
 * The idea that France was a nation, not a kingdom
 * that it was a union of 28 million french people
 * The reason bhind the tricolor flag: red of blue of the people and white of the king
 * French set up new nations
 * Italians acme together under the Roman Empire
 * Polish people all came under Grand Duchy of Warsaw
 * 300 german rulers came into 30 states because of Napoleon
 * Ended in 1815
 * The countries that defeated Napoleon met together to reorganize Europe
 * They met in Vienna
 * They recreated the old states that Napoleon took over
 * Italian royal families took back their thrones
 * 39 german states replaced the old Rhine confederation
 * The new countires had nothing to do with the peoples' nationality
 * in the nineteenth century people revolted to change the way they were ruled because they were under foreign rule
 * Revolution
 * liberals and nationalists started revolutions in 1820, 1830, 1848
 * Many of the German revolters were students
 * 1830 revolution borke out in 6 countries
 * Netherlands, people rose against King William
 * They had been taken over by the Dutch in 1815 and they didnt like it
 * King William refused to listen to complaints
 * After much fighting, they drove the dutch out and declared Belgium an independent country
 * Austrian Empire
 * Hungarians rebelled against authorities in Budapest
 * Hungarian Peition:
 * Free press and end to cencorship
 * Responsible government
 * Annual meetings of the parliament in Pest
 * Equality for law and civil matters
 * National Gaurd
 * Equality of Taxation
 * End to feudal dues
 * Jury system
 * Legends and Myths of revolution
 * Before Napoleons death, he dictated hid diaries to his friends
 * In there he made himself sound like a great hero
 * Helped create him as a great historical figure
 * In 1840, British allowed Napoleons body to be reburied in France
 * When he arrived 100,000 people stood in streets to pay their respects
 * He was buried in Invalidies church, then a huge tomb of precious stone
 * The pictures that had been painted of him at that time
 * Bank of France issued franc coins with his portrait
 * He is also in an English lullaby
 * When they