How was Napoleon an outcome of the French Revolution?

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Also, what where the impacts his conquests had on the social and political tructure of Europe?

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Answer 1

Yes, he was. Had it not been for the French Revolution abolishing the monarchy, and then the ensuing chaos, there would have been no place for a strong man like Napoleon to rise and take control. His immediate conquests had little long term effects as, in the end, he lost. But the there was an effect in that the winning powers held the Congress of Vienna between 1814 and 1815 which really set out a map of Europe which, apart from the unification of Italy and Germany, endured until WWI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna

The leading Austrian envoy at the Congress, and the man who really set the idea for it going, Count von Metternich, is famous for saying 'Italy is merely a geographical expression' In other words, they looked to maintain the status quo ante the Napoleonic Wars and not give into the rise in nationalism that was just starting.