these changes were done as a result of a plebiscite in order to show popular support of France thus al!
             lowing Napoleon to make these changes, and other changes in the future easily obtainable. Napoleon stated to the French people "The Revolution is safe on my watch. I am the product of the revolution myself. But the chaos and uncertainty of the Revolution is going to be over. People should go back to their private interests, their private concerns. And the new government will provide the order and the stability and the strength to allow that to happen" (Barnett 1978, 83). Napoleon was the powerful man in France at this time. Napoleon treated people who were not in support of him with brutal cruelty. He also established a secret police and eliminated his opponents including the Bourbon Duke of Enghien, whom he executed after falsely accusing him of plotting against Napoleon. In 1800, he crossed the Alps and defeated the Austrians at Marengo and he also established a European peace agreement, which established th
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