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World History In-Class Essay 9/17 No late work accepted. Once work has been graded, students have 1 day to fix their assignment and resubmit. If work is resubmitted, students must email the teacher. Your Contributions to Class Brainstorm/Discussion To get credit for your contribution to this week’s classroom brainstorming/discussion exercise, copy-and-paste your contributions from the shared class document here. Notes (Compiled from my 4 sources): Napoleon broke away from the Old Regime of the Bourbon monarchy. He is known as Napoleon Bonaparte, or Napoleon I. Martyn Lyons argues “Napoleon was not an enlightened despot but rather the founder of the modern state, and that his regime was the fulfillment of the ‘bourgeois’ Revolution of …show more content…

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Bonaparte was finally exiled to Saint Helena, which proved to be his final resting place once he died on May 5, 1821 from what researchers believe was stomach cancer (Phonpei,

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