Las acuñaciones de los Napoleónidas: imagen de la nueva Europa (1803-1815)

Abstract

In this article we will do through Napoleon's monetary coinages and their relatives as the arrival to the power in France of general Bonaparte (Brumario 1799) with consul's title it marks an inflection point in the history of Europe. Give one gives you moment will go accumulating to be able to, until transforming into a monarch with practically absolute powers and its foreign policy, endorsed by its military victories, they will make him the referee from Europe whose frontiers will go changing to will, on one hand enlarging the territory characteristic of France, until constituting the call Great Empire, and for other placing their relatives and collaborators to the head of old (Naples, Spain) or new (Westphalia) states, always satellites of France whose objective was to create an Europe "confederal" dominated totally by France whose frontiers ended up going from the strait from Gibraltar.