Translation of: L'épisode napoléonien, aspects intérieurs, 1799-1815

Includes bibliographical references and index

PART ONE: THE NAPOLEONIC BLUEPRINT FOR THE STATE AND SOCIETY: THE REGIME: Political institutions: structure and evolution -- The politics of power -- A COUNTRY UNDER ADMINISTRATIVE TUTELAGE: The prefects -- The attempt to control society -- The fiscal system and its agents -- THE SOCIAL BASES OF THE REGIME: The political and administrative personnel -- Napoleonic elites: nobility and notables -- PART TWO: FRANCE FROM 1800 TO 1815: The obverse of the regime: elements of opposition -- A population in slower growth -- THE SOCIAL CLASSES: The new privileged -- The fate of the old nobility -- The ways of bourgeois advancement -- The France of manual labor -- ECONOMIC LIFE: TAKE-OFF OR STAGNATION? : Uncertainty concerning the agricultural economy -- The misfortune of large-scale maritime commerce -- Early industrialization -- Toward a new economic geography of France -- AFTER THE REVOLUTION: FAITH, SENSIBILITY, REASON: A catholic revival? -- The components of the antirationalist reaction -- The scientific movement of the early Nineteenth Century

"Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French people during the fifteen years immediately following their great revolution."--Back cover

Translation of L'épisode napoléonien, aspects intérieurs, 1799-1815