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The Modern Regime, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine

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  • Book language: English
  • 453 pages

The Modern Regime, Volume 1 is a historical study by Hippolyte Taine, part of his Origins of Contemporary France. It examines Napoleon's character and passions, the formation of a centralized state, and the new government after the Revolution. Listeners interested in political history and the roots of modern France will find it rewarding.

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THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY
FRANCE, VOLUME 5
THE MODERN REGIME,
VOLUME 1 [NAPOLEON]
by Hippolyte A. Taine
Text Transcriber's Note: The numbering of Volumes, Books,
Chapters
and Sections are as in the French not the American edition.
Annotations by the transcriber are initialled SR.
Svend Rom, April 2000.
HTML Producer's Note: Footnote numbering has been changed
to
include as a prefix to the original footnote number, the
book and
chapter numbers. A table of contents has been added with
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links.
David Widger, June 2008
CHAPTER
II.
HIS
IDEAS,
PASSIONS
AND

INTELLIGENCE.
I. Intense Passions.
II. Will and Egoism.
III.
Napoleon's
Dominant
Passion:
Power.
IV. His Bad Manners.
V. His Policy.
VI.
Fundamental
Defaults
of
his
System.
BOOK SECOND. FORMATION AND CHARACTER OF THE NEW
STATE.
CHAPTER I. THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT
I. The Institution of Government.
II. Default of previous government.
III. In 1799, the undertaking more
difficult and the materials worse.
IV.
Motives
for
suppressing
the
election of local powers.
V. Reasons for centralization.
VI. Irreconcilable divisions.
VII.
Establishment
of
a
new
Dictatorship.
CHAPTER II. PUBLIC POWER
I. Principal service rendered by the
public power.
II. Abusive Government Intervention.
III. The State attacks persons and
property.
IV. Abuse of State powers.
V. Final Results of Abusive Government
Intervention
CHAPTER III. THE NEW GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION.
I. Precedents of the new organization.
II. Doctrines of Government.
III.
Brilliant
Statesman
and
Administrator.
IV. Napoleon's barracks.
V. Modeled after Rome.
BOOK THIRD. OBJECT AND MERITS OF THE SYSTEM.
CHAPTER I. RECOVERY OF SOCIAL ORDER.

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Contents

  1. THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 5
  2. THE MODERN REGIME, VOLUME 1 [NAPOLEON] by Hippolyte A. Taine
  3. PREFACE
  4. BOOK FIRST. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
  5. CHAPTER I. HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF HIS CHARACTER AND GENIUS.
  6. I. Napoleon's Past and Personality.
  7. II. The Leader and Statesman
  8. III. His acute Understanding of Others.
  9. IV. His Wonderful Memory.
  10. V. His Imagination and its Excesses.
  11. CHAPTER II. HIS IDEAS, PASSIONS AND INTELLIGENCE.
  12. I. Intense Passions.
  13. II. Will and Egoism.
  14. III. Napoleon's Dominant Passion: Power.
  15. IV. His Bad Manners.
  16. V. His Policy.
  17. VI. Fundamental Defaults of his System.
  18. BOOK SECOND. FORMATION AND CHARACTER OF THE NEW STATE.
  19. CHAPTER I. THE INSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT
  20. I. The Institution of Government.
  21. II. Default of previous government.
  22. III. In 1799, the undertaking more difficult and the materials worse.
  23. IV. Motives for suppressing the election of local powers.
  24. V. Reasons for centralization.
  25. VI. Irreconcilable divisions.
  26. VII. Establishment of a new Dictatorship.
  27. CHAPTER II. PUBLIC POWER
  28. I. Principal service rendered by the public power.
  29. II. Abusive Government Intervention.
  30. III. The State attacks persons and property.

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