https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:2579 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:28:51 AEDT ]]> https://ogma.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:22875 ancien régime and the Revolution, thereby helping to create a new political culture based on continuity with the past. And yet the people were precluded from the ceremony itself. Moreover, the coronation contained within it the seeds of the Empire's later turn towards absolute-style monarchy, based on revived notions of divine right. The coronation thus highlights Napoleon's, and the French political elite's, ambivalent attitude towards the idea of monarchy and popular sovereignty. Although the coronation should be seen as part of the process of national reconciliation implemented by Napoleon, as ritual it failed to leave a deep impression.]]> Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:12:58 AEDT ]]>