. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. lpture passed into other hands. Itnow forms the frieze of the Marble Hall in the Carlotta Villaon Lake Como, while only a plaster copy of it has been set upin the palace of the King of Italy on the Quirinal. For the most part Napoleon wrought in stone and was inreaction from the idealism that preceded the Empire and ranriot. Still he remained obedient to many of the solid, tangiblepurposes of the Revolution which sent him forth. He up-rooted ancient injustice all along his way and planted liberalinstitutions throughout Europe. Eve
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. lpture passed into other hands. Itnow forms the frieze of the Marble Hall in the Carlotta Villaon Lake Como, while only a plaster copy of it has been set upin the palace of the King of Italy on the Quirinal. For the most part Napoleon wrought in stone and was inreaction from the idealism that preceded the Empire and ranriot. Still he remained obedient to many of the solid, tangiblepurposes of the Revolution which sent him forth. He up-rooted ancient injustice all along his way and planted liberalinstitutions throughout Europe. Even to faraway Poland, hecarried modern laws, freeing the serfs and the land, whilePrussia emulated the example of her conqueror and feudalismdisappeared from Germany in a year. Let every species ofserfage be abolished, he commanded his brother Jerome, whensetting him upon the throne of Westphalia. The benefits ofthe Code Napoleon, the publicity of court proceedings, the es-tablishment of juries should form so many distinctive char-acteristics of your SoMK Napoleonic Atttographs VICTORIES OF PEACE 259 He did more for the emancipation of the Jews than all otherrulers together in three centuries. He convoked their leadersin the famous French Sanhedrim of 1807 and his Madriddecree still is their charter of rights in the lands that formedhis Empire. All men are brothers before God, he de-clared to a deputation composed of a Catholic priest, a Protes-tant minister, and a Jewish rabbi, and he gave that brother-hood the force of law nearly everywhere in Europe. How farhe stood in advance of even the more progressive nations maybe measured by the fact that the earl marshal of England,the Duke of Norfolk, still was debarred from a seat inthe House of Lords because he was a Catholic, while George IIIdismissed a British cabinet in 1807 because it favoured theemancipation of the Catholics, a measure of justice that wasrefused until 1829. And it was not until 1858 that Englandemanc
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