NAPOLEONIC EUROPE

In 1804 Napoleon was made Emperor, and consolidated his conquests and administrative rule in the areas of Europe controlled by the French armies. The virile anticlericism of the Revolution was relaxed and frontiers became more open. A letter of 1804 demonstrates the new Europe - an ecclesiastical letter in Latin from Liège (today Belgium) to the bishop of Waitzen (today Vác in Hungary) was directed through Strasbourg to reach its destination - Strasbourg had become the transit point for the new Napoleonic Europe.