... . When push came to shove, many Europeans, including Napoleon's own family, were not willing to forgo coffee, spices, and dyes to suit His Majesty's policies. "Your blockade doesn't block, " wrote a Swiss pro-English economist. Legal and illegal trade flourished; the Empire's most respectable bankers, merchants, industrialists, and courtiers were up to their hips in fraud (Englund 367). " France was not the ... ...

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... that anyone who harms the royal family would be executed. The mob backed off, but later on attacked again this time without the ministers. They fought and killed six hundred Swiss guards because they wanted a republic. The Assembly agreed and suspended the king while they wrote a new republican constitution for France(Kaiser). During the writing of the new republican constitution, the ... ...

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... parlements, who believed reforms for the lower classes were unnecessary. Four days before the Bastille fell, Louis XVI dismissed his entire cabinet and appointed a new council. With rumors that the Swiss and German Guards were to murder the Parisian populace, the French Guard joined the rioting and broke into the Tuileries Palace. July 14th was Bastille day. Only four years after ... ...

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... . By 1765 he established his own bank. He became involved in public affairs. He made tons of loans to the French government. In 1764 he married Suzanne Curchod, daughter of a Swiss pastor. She was beautiful, charming, and intelligent. In 1776 King Louis XVI named him director general of the treasury. The next year he became director general of finances. He became ... ...

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