French period
In Northern European historiography, the term French period (
In
Third Reich. In Germany, the term has thus been shunned since the Bonn Republic, with "French Revolutionary Wars" and "Napoleonic Wars
" more commonly used today.
In Dutch historiography, the period of the Kingdom of Holland, when Emperor Napoleon placed his younger brother Louis on the newly created throne following the overthrow of the Batavian Republic is not well studied.[3]
History
Following the
Jerome Bonaparte, respectively. The Austrian Netherlands and Prince-Bishopric of Liège were annexed and became départements
of France.
During the French occupation, the
Liberation War. In the Confederation itself, there were already riots against the French rule, and after the devastation of the French army during the French invasion of Russia, the commander of the Prussian Corps, Yorck, signed a ceasefire with Russia
. This was to be the decisive trigger of the Liberation War.
Results
The French period contributed significantly to the emergence of the idea of unity and national consciousness in Germany. The many regions with their various dialects found in the struggle against the French occupation "German" as a common definition of anti-French sentiment or freedom. After the
German Question
.
References
- ^ Eduard Rothert: Rheinland-Westfalen im Wechsel der Zeiten. Düsseldorf 1900; Online-Präsentation der Universitätsbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, retrieved 21 March 2011.
- ^ Das Rheinland unter den Franzosen 1794–1815. Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), retrieved 18 March 2011.
- ^ Lok, Matthijs, and Martijn van der Burg. "The Dutch case: the Kingdom of Holland and the imperial departments." The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan 2012. 100-111.