<P> By 1793, the execution of the French king and the onset of the Terror disillusioned the "Bildungsbürgertum" (educated middle classes). Reformers said the solution was to have faith in the ability of Germans to reform their laws and institutions in peaceful fashion . </P> <P> After Prussia was humiliated by Napoleon opinion swung against France and stimulated and shaped German nationalism . </P> <P> France took direct control of the Rhineland 1794--1814 and radically and permanently liberalized the government, society and economy . </P> <P> The French swept away centuries worth of outmoded restrictions and introduced unprecedented levels of efficiency . The chaos and barriers in a land divided and subdivided among many different petty principalities gave way to a rational, simplified, centralized system controlled by Paris and run by Napoleon's relatives . The most important impact came from the abolition of all feudal privileges and historic taxes, the introduction of legal reforms of the Napoleonic Code, and the reorganization of the judicial and local administrative systems . The economic integration of the Rhineland with France increased prosperity, especially in industrial production, while business accelerated with the new efficiency and lowered trade barriers . The Jews were liberated from the ghetto . One sour point was the hostility of the French officials toward the Roman Catholic Church, the choice of most of the residents . Much of South Germany felt a similar but more muted influence of the French Revolution, while in Prussia and areas to the east there was far less impact . The reforms were permanent . Decades later workers and peasants in the Rhineland often appealed to Jacobinism to oppose unpopular government programs, while the intelligentsia demanded the maintenance of the Napoleonic Code (which was stayed in effect for a century). </P>

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