# france from 1804 to 1940 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 15, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384 "2015-09-15T18:08:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carlowplayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@carlowplayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlowplayer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/1 "2015-09-15T18:08:49Z")
From 1804,bourbon restoration,kingdom,republic and empire under napoleon III how could french society be described as. for example during the first napoleonic bonaparte era did women play a role in the military and what other roles did they have in society.Was Napoleon Bonaprte cruel towards the locals of countries he invaded and did he destroy any major sites/buildings cities that he stormed. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/2 "2015-09-15T18:31:25Z")
You don’t need a thread, you need a book. Get thee to a library! That said, on one point I will offer some guidance. While he could be ruthless on the battlefield and when he had to storm a city (Standard procedure in those days), in general he didn’t abuse the ‘common’ people and usually imposed his "Code Napoleon’ as law, which was often better than what the people had been living under. Of course, the Spanish may disagree, but Napoleon was not there during the worse of the rebellion/repression in the early 1800’s (it was some nasty stuff). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/3 "2015-09-15T19:14:44Z")
How long do you have to write this term paper? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/4 "2015-09-16T03:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > how could french society be described as. I’d go for “consistently stylishly dressed”, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Lubricious\_Integument](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/5 "2015-09-16T03:19:04Z")
It was pretty cool. 136 years isn’t a whole lot of time. Not much happened. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/6 "2015-09-16T03:32:08Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > How long do you have to write this term paper? Ha! My first thought. > [@carlowplayer](#): > > From 1804,bourbon restoration,kingdom,republic and empire under napoleon III how could french society be described as. Short answer: A fascinating mess. Long answer: If a library is out of the question, start with Wikipedia entries for the various Emperors and Kings and go from there. Keywords/phrases: Napoleon, Waterloo, Paris July Revolution, Uprising of 1832, 1848 Revolution, Second Republic, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas. And that’s just for a start. Oh hell, [just go here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_long_nineteenth_century) and figure it out yourself. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/7 "2015-09-16T05:09:55Z")
Haitian Revolution Napoleon Declared Emperor The Hundred Days and the Battle of Waterloo Restoration of the House of Bourbon The July Revolution Canut revolts June Rebellion February Revolution French Intervention in Mexico Franco-Prussian War Third Republic Paris Commune The Dreyfus Affair Entente Cordiale Separation of Church and State World War I Crisis of February 1934 Nazi Invasion of France Pretty much everything imaginable happened during this time, except beheading a king—and you can include that and an event that is actually called the Reign of Terror—if you extend the dates by just 11 years. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/8 "2015-09-17T03:00:02Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > Haitian Revolution > Napoleon Declared Emperor > The Hundred Days and the Battle of Waterloo > Restoration of the House of Bourbon > The July Revolution > Canut revolts > June Rebellion > February Revolution > French Intervention in Mexico > Franco-Prussian War > Third Republic > Paris Commune > The Dreyfus Affair > Entente Cordiale > Separation of Church and State > World War I > Crisis of February 1934 > Nazi Invasion of France > > Pretty much everything imaginable happened during this time, except beheading a king—and you can include that and an event that is actually called the Reign of Terror—if you extend the dates by just 11 years. A good list but I’d add in French Imperialism. This was the period when France took control over Algeria, Indochina, Madagascar, Senegal, and all those other places that caused them troubles a few decades later. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/9 "2015-09-17T15:02:51Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > Haitian Revolution > Napoleon Declared Emperor > The Hundred Days and the Battle of Waterloo > Restoration of the House of Bourbon > The July Revolution > Canut revolts > June Rebellion > February Revolution > French Intervention in Mexico > Franco-Prussian War > Third Republic > Paris Commune > The Dreyfus Affair > Entente Cordiale > Separation of Church and State > World War I > Crisis of February 1934 > Nazi Invasion of France > > Pretty much everything imaginable happened during this time, except beheading a king—and you can include that and an event that is actually called the Reign of Terror—if you extend the dates by just 11 years. That’s just boring war stuff. The really interesting France was cultural, social, intellectual, and artistic. Much more important, too, in the long run. Check out The Exposition Universelle of 1900 as a center point and work backward and forward. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/france-from-1804-to-1940/731384/10 "2015-09-17T17:33:43Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > Haitian Revolution > Napoleon Declared Emperor > The Hundred Days and the Battle of Waterloo > Restoration of the House of Bourbon > The July Revolution > Canut revolts > June Rebellion > February Revolution > French Intervention in Mexico > Franco-Prussian War > Third Republic > Paris Commune > The Dreyfus Affair > Entente Cordiale > Separation of Church and State > World War I > Crisis of February 1934 > Nazi Invasion of France - We didn’t start the fire It was always burning Since the world’s been turning\*