Volume Ten: Napoleon Bonaparte: Early military victories won Napoleon Bonaparte and favor with the French people, and enabled him to impose his widespread despotic authority over the populations:

1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte ignored the Rights of Man, locked people up without trial, and his secret police continually inflicted
torture, even though that practice had long been abolished.
1810 – Bonaparte’s hegemony peaked: France annexed much territory extending from the Pyrenees to Denmark in the north,
and from Catalonia to the border shared by Rome and Naples in the south. French rule was also imposed over the
Illyrian Provinces and much of Yugoslavia. Bonaparte’s family members ruled parts of Italy, Switzerland, and Germany,
and semi-independent vassals occupied the rest…..read more in Volume Ten.