Impact of NB's social policies in the grand empire

Question 1

What social policies and changes were brought to the Empire?

Answer 1

-Civil codes
-Concordat
-Spread of enlightened ideas

Question 2

What changes did the Concordat enforce?

Answer 2

-End to privileges of the church
-religious toleration
-Nationalisation of church land and abolished monasteries
-ended the tithe

Question 3

Was the concordat in the empire a success?

Answer 3

-YES:
More secular locations welcomed

NO:
-opposed by Spain especially after NB’s seizure of the Pope in 1809.
-Jewish Tolerance was also opposed : Duchy of Warsaw suspended Jewish Tolerance for 10 years

Question 4

What did extending the civil code to the Empire do?

Answer 4

-removed seignueralism and feudalism
-tax exemptions removed
-special legal rights such as Seigneurial courts abolished
-Serfdom abolished- Duchy of Warsaw 1807

Question 5

What were some limitations of imposing the Civil code?

Answer 5

• Civil Code not successfully implemented e.g., in Naples.
  -Armed rebellion – Calabria in Naples (1806-7), Tyrol in Austria (1809), Portugal (1807) and
  Spain (1808

Question 6

What was the impact of conscription (part of Jourdan’s law) on the Empire?

Answer 6

-Negative impact: Westphalia- 600,000 conscripted (population of 2m); 38,000 killed/wounded
-conscription was hated in Naples and