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  1. The system of economic preference and
  2. protection within Europe created by the
  3. French emperor Napoleon in order to exclude
  4. British trade. Apart from its function as
  5. economic warfare, the system also reinforced
  6. the French economy at the expense of other
  7. European states. It lasted 1806-13 but failed
  8. due to British naval superiority.
  9.