July 14 is Bastille Day Napoleon tried to control the Jews and make them assimilate. However, all his efforts had the opposite effect. By breaking up the feudal trammels of mid-Europe and introducing equality, he actually set them loose. Napoleon: 'The French government cannot look on with indifference as a vile, degraded nation capable of every iniquity takes exclusive possession of two beautiful departments of Alsace; one must consider the Jews as a nation and not as a sect.
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