His order in to kill plague-stricken French soldiers in Jaffa [in modern-day Israel] who were fighting in his Egyptian campaign has always been regarded as a sign of heartlessness. But at other times — even on the battlefield, where he would force himself to be callous — he was deeply moved by the horrors of war, especially after the [ferocious, inconclusive] Battle of Eylau [against Russian and Prussian forces in ], where he was shaken by the image of blood-soaked snow.
More than that: He was the first political leader to give a woman responsibility for a diplomatic mission, in the case of the Countess of Brignole in He also appointed his second wife, Austrian archduchess Marie-Louise as his regent, signing imperial decrees in his place for a year and a half.
Is this criticism justified? For years, one of his closest servants was a former slave, the Mamluk Roustam Raza dit Roustan. The re-establishment of slavery was an atrocious moral failing. It was shocking at the time and quite rightly still shocks us today. Bonaparte was arguably acting without sufficient thought, seeking short-term economic gains in the pursuit of stability; this was sadly symptomatic of his approach to power — in which calculations of expediency too often cast aside great ideals.
The question is what exactly we should be commemorating in His actions made a colossal mark on the lives of millions of French people who lived under his reign and we should perhaps focus as well on remembering their various experiences — whether as soldiers or civilians. So the hype around the bicentenary is an excellent opportunity to make the most recent academic research known to as many people as possible.
Napoleon wanted supreme rule over everyone and the fact that the workers cannot change their wages or hours proves this. Napoleon wanted nothing to change or fluctuate during his rule. The Napoleonic Code prevented workers form joining together and thus destroyed the chance of people making more money and the revolutionary ideal of advancing through society.
Napoleon Bonaparte was most certainly a child of the French revolution and kept many of the revolution's ideals such as improving economy and putting an end to serfdom; but he also destroyed the ideal of a completely free people. Napoleon Bonaparte increased the economy through improvements with bank and in commerce. He created social equality through the classes with meritocracy and abolished of serfdom.
He kept these ideals of the revolution but he destroyed many others such as the ideal of freedom of speech and press. Napoleon Bonaparte was a child of the revolution in so many ways, yet he destroyed many revolutionary ideals during his reign as emperor. He is also notorious for leading the French into many wars, which resulted in millions dead and a bankrupt France.
For all of these reasons and his greed for power, Napoleon may be considered a villain. What Napoleon lacked in height he certainly made up for with greed. I would definitely see him as a villain just because the ramifications of his actions were felt in Europe long after he was gone. In exile on St Helena , he said:. Later in , Napoleon ignored advice from his closest advisors and invaded Russia. A doomed campaign, his inflated ego cost the lives of some , men, most dying not from fighting, but from starvation, sickness, and exposure during the long retreat back to France.
He needed victories on the battlefield in order to maintain control of his empire. After his eventual defeat, his soldiers still considered him their true leader and helped him regain control of France. Napoleon — PBS. Napoleon — Wikipedia. We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.
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He was a savior of France. If there had been no Napoleon, the Republic would not have survived. The ideas that underpin our modern world—meritocracy, equality before the law, property rights, religious toleration, modern secular education, sound finances, and so on—were championed, consolidated, codified and geographically extended by Napoleon.
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