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G. Washington
every dictator thought that way. very few of them were right. Personally, I don't think Nap was right. his way was good for France short term, but long term his way was doomed to failure, and pretty much ensured failure. Every single thread ever that addressed how Nap France could endure all had changes to his personality/methodology. There's a reason for this.
False. If he wins in Russia, he has pretty much won.
He took power by fraud. held it by coercion.
Everybody did this in these times (the others were rulers by "divine" rights).
led the country on a path that ended with millions dead. It was only by fortuitous circumstance that France wasn't decimated, dismantled, and completely marginalized.
France was going to be dismantled without his victories in 1797 and 1800. He saved France from the incapable and corrupt Directoire.
He held a few enlightenment ideals.
- popular sovereignty
- universal suffrage
- liberty of religion
- equality before the law
...
Only a few, minor ideas.
That doesn't make him a republican. Mostly, he was just a military dictator. He lived by the sword, not the pen, and ran a police state. The only one of his brothers who held any republican ideals, Lucien, disavowed him and sought to escape the country rather than carry through with his threat to skewer him with a sword.
Republicanism and military dictatorship are not contradictory.