Editing Napoleon (section)

===Long-term influence outside France===
{{Main|:Influence of the French Revolution}}
[[File:Flickr - USCapitol - Napoleon I (1769-1821).jpg|thumb|upright|[[commons:Bas-reliefs in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives|Bas-relief]] of Napoleon in the chamber of the [[United States House of Representatives]]]]Napoleon was responsible for spreading many of the values of the French Revolution to other countries, especially through the Napoleonic Code.{{sfnp|Grab|2017|p=2016ff}} After the fall of Napoleon, it continued to influence the law in western Europe and other parts of the world including Latin America, the Dominican Republic, Louisiana and Quebec.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lobingier |first=Charles Sumner |date=December 1918 |title=Napoleon and His Code |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1327640 |journal=Harvard Law Review |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=114–134 |doi=10.2307/1327640 |issn=0017-811X |jstor=1327640 |access-date=5 December 2023 |archive-date=10 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210214854/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1327640 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Napoleon's regime abolished remnants of feudalism in the lands he conquered and in his satellite states. He liberalized [[property law]]s, ended [[manorialism]], abolished the [[guild]] of merchants and craftsmen to facilitate entrepreneurship, legalized divorce, closed the Jewish [[ghetto]]s and ended the [[Spanish Inquisition]]. The power of church courts and religious authority was sharply reduced and [[equality before the law]] was proclaimed for all men.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Palmer |first=R. R. |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernw0000palm_l5v4/page/428 |title=A history of the modern world |date=1995 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-07-040826-5 |pages=428–429 |author-link=Robert Roswell Palmer}}</ref>

Napoleon reorganized what had been the [[Holy Roman Empire]], made up of about three hundred ''[[Kleinstaaten]]'', into a more streamlined forty-state [[Confederation of the Rhine]]; this helped promote the [[German Confederation]] and the [[unification of Germany]] in 1871, as it sparked a new wave of [[German nationalism]] that opposed the French intervention.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scheck |first=Raffael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWqtAwAAQBAJ |title=Germany, 1871-1945: A Concise History |date=2008 |publisher=Berg |isbn=978-1-84520-817-2 |pages=11–13 |access-date=5 December 2023 |archive-date=7 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207104231/https://books.google.com/books?id=QWqtAwAAQBAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> The movement toward [[Italian unification]] was similarly sparked by Napoleonic rule.<ref>{{cite book |last=Astarita |first=Tommaso |url=https://archive.org/details/betweensaltwater00tomm |title=Between Salt Water And Holy Water: A History Of Southern Italy |date=2005 |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=0-393-05864-6 |page=264ff}}</ref> These changes contributed to the development of nationalism and the [[nation state]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Alter |first=Peter |url=https://archive.org/details/unitydiversityin0000unse_f1p7 |title=Unity and Diversity in European Culture c. 1800 |date=2006 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=0-19-726382-8 |editor1=T. C. W. Blanning |editor1-link=T. C. W. Blanning |pages=61–76 |editor2=Hagen Schulze |editor2-link=Hagen Schulze}}</ref>

The Napoleonic invasion of Spain and ousting of the Spanish Bourbon monarchy had a significant effect on [[Hispanic America|Spanish America]]. Many local elites sought to rule in the name of [[Ferdinand VII of Spain]], whom they considered the legitimate monarch. Napoleon indirectly began the process of [[Spanish American wars of independence|Latin American independence]] when the power vacuum was filled by local political leaders such as [[Simón Bolívar]] and [[José de San Martín]]. Such leaders embraced nationalistic sentiments influenced by French nationalism and led successful independence movements in Latin America.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Crisis of 1808 |url=https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/spanishsetting/pages/crisis.html |access-date=6 May 2021 |website=www.brown.edu |publisher=Brown University |archive-date=31 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731113614/https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/spanishsetting/pages/crisis.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[[John Lynch (historian)|John Lynch]], ''Caudillos in Spanish America 1800–1850''. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1992, pp. 402–403.</ref> Napoleon's reputation is generally favourable in Poland, which is the only country in the world to evoke him in its national anthem, [[Poland Is Not Yet Lost]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/napoleon-and-polish-identity |last=Nieuwazny |first=Andrzej |title=Napoleon and Polish Identity |website=www.historytoday.com |archive-date=7 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207104311/https://www.historytoday.com/archive/napoleon-and-polish-identity |url-status=live}}</ref>