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Four outline maps of France (1800, 1802, 1804, 1815) with pink shading marking regions where abstention in Napoleonic plebiscites exceeded 80 percent, concentrated in the west.

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Title

Abstention Rate in Napoleonic Plebiscites

Description

All regions of France did not support Napoleon equally. His rule aroused most enthusiasm in the east (a prerevolutionary border region crucial in the Napoleonic wars) and the center of the country, least in the west, which had long provided a home to royalist counterrevolution.
Abstension rate in Napoleonic plebiscites (shaded areas = those where the abstention rate exceeded 80 percent)

Source

Frédéric Bluche, Le Plebiscite des Cent-Jours, 1815 (Geneva: Droz, 1974), p. 97

Relation

http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/513/

Identifier

513

Citation

“Abstention Rate in Napoleonic Plebiscites,” LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION, accessed November 9, 2026, https://revolution.chnm.org/d/513.