Why didn't people let Napolean rule there land?

Question

Why didn't country's let Napolean take over there land? I mean if I was in the situation, I probably would let him. Napolean let the people practice what ever religion they wanted, improved the economy gave better jobs, and over improved the country. Look what he did to France. France was crumbling, bankrupt, 98% of the population were peasents who were living on the streets, and he brought France up to one of the greatest country's in Europe taking over country's one by one. I mean if I got a good job, got a good life had enough food, still practicing the religion I wanted to, all for just having a new ruler (who's good), and living at another country, fine by me. I may be wrong with some of the facts such as the religion, but thats what my teacher said, and if I'm wrong, or there is something I'm missing please correct me.

Answer 1

Nationalism.

Every village lives in jealousy of the next one, and in the eighteenth century, the villages were close to cohering into the nations we think of today.

Germans, however, did not have a country. They had 300. There was a strong sense that the German folk belonged in a single state, but it took events like the Napoleonic Wars to help them take steps toward nationhood.

Specific old rivalries fed into anti-Napoleonic nationalism, as well as a general sense of nationalism. The English were partiularly anti-French, having long experience of wars across the Channel.

Further, France had just undergone a huge, violent convulsion (the Revolution of 1789 through the Republic of Virtue), and probably many French didn't want to be part of France.

Napoleon's beneficence is overstated by the questioner. He favored Catholicism and repressed Protestant observance.

I do think the 1804 Napoleonic Code was a great leap forward in justice and humanity in many respects.

The mere fact of invasion is enough to make enemies of even formerly friendly neighbors.

Answer 2

Napoleon is sometimes alleged to have been in many ways the direct inspiration for later autocrats (or when you think of it, even Adolph Hitler): he never flinched when facing the prospect of war and destruction for thousands, friend or foe, and turned his search of undisputed rule into a continuous cycle of conflict throughout Europe, ignoring treaties and conventions alike. Even if other European powers continuously offered Napoleon terms that would have restored France's borders to situations only dreamt by the Bourbon kings, he always refused compromise, and only accepted surrender.


The fate of Napoleon was inextricably linked to that of the army, whose early victories exported many ideological features of the French Revolution throughout Europe. Seigneurial dues and seigneurial justice were abolished wherever French armies went, aristocratic privileges were eliminated in all places except Poland, and the introduction of the Napoleonic Code throughout the continent made all people equal before the law, established jury systems, and legalized divorce. However, Napoleon's domination was highly nepotistic as he often placed relatives on the thrones of Europe. Resentment over French occupation was an important factor in the explosion of nationalism in places like Italy and Germany, which would both become nations a few decades later. French rule in the occupied territories would also consist of plundering the countryside of anything valuable, food or otherwise.

Answer 3

Because the countries weren't led by the common people... they were lead by the people in power, and they didn't want to lose their power obviously

and you can't use france as an example, because they generally did want Napolean to rule, that's why he was able to take france back over after his first exile

Answer 4

not the common people choice so the powers of the country being conquered lost power

Answer 5

he was short and nobody like a short french guy telling them what to do.