Napoleon Series Archive 2017

How it worked (French confiscations):

This is a page from inside a French survey of domains in the Marburg region of Hessen-Kassel. The survey was done about a month after the French conquest, on Napoleon's orders. It surveys all productive property. That usually means agricultural land but not always; it can also mean workshops, mines, forests, mills, etc. You'll note that each property is named, its owner listed, its value assessed, and if possible the most recent deeds are recorded.

https://imgur.com/njriYdI

This was done because Napoleon took nearly one-third of the domains from that region to give as gifts to French civil and military officials, as well as to members of his family (Pauline, Bonaparte, for example, was the second-largest recipient of these gifts in Germany, behind Marshal Berthier.)

The domains were then packaged together in Ampliations, to give them more or less round values (10,000 francs, 20,000 francs, etc) and then given to their new French owners. In many cases (Westphalia, the Duchy of Warsaw, Berg), the new French owners were tax-exempt and not subject to local law.

If the local owners refused to sign, the French simply signed for them. (This fact was overlooked or misunderstood by a couple of English-language historians in the 20th century, who mistakenly asserted that these transfers of property were voluntary sales. They were not. The owners were not compensated.)

This is a cover page from one such Ampliation. As you can see, the French used a pre-printed form for this, and simply filled-in the details:

https://imgur.com/CO5TFcY

This was done in Italy, Poland, Germany, Spain, virtually everywhere the French went. Note that the form has been in use for a while; it was created in 1805 and by 1810 they've had to cross-out the names of some people who are apparently no longer in office.

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At the moment I can't think of any equivalent of this for the Russians, Austrians, or Prussians: Creating a full-time bureau with its own staff and paperwork, specifically for the confiscation of foreign property?

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