Government Employee Opposition during the Hundred Days (original) (raw)

2008

Abstract

On his return to Paris in March 1815, Napoleon knew that he was running a huge risk at an international level. If Europe refused his offers of peace, the army and the people were going to have to back him up. But the situation was very different from the period pre-1814. Civil servants at various levels were not ready to follow him. In fact, the restored Napoleonic regime was to be confronted with the resistance, active and passive, of the electoral corps (though purged) and the mayors. The majority of these men felt their obedience lay with the king, and they did all they could to prevent the mobilisation of the country. And, for ideological reasons, they were to be assisted by lower civil servants and religious figures. But whilst they found it relatively easy to obstruct the smooth running of the state in a departement or commune, they were too few in number for the opposition to be described as systematic. This article attempts to make the distinction between active and passive ...

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