nAPOLEON

Essay: Napoleon

“Napoleon gave practical expression to the principles of the French Revolution”, do you agree?


Introduction

Napoleon is widely known as dictator. But this is not the name you would usually give to a ruler who listened to and did so much for his people. In most areas Napoleon stuck to the guidelines set out by the great minds behind the revolution. He brought equality to all, gave education to all, and out of a failure created a nation that was feared by all its neighbours.


Napoleon’s main following of the revolutionary ideals would obviously have been his obsession with equality. Being one of the most important of the revolutionary ideals, equality was interspersed with all of Napoleon’s reforms:

In the removal of the privileges and status of the nobles Napoleon introduced the fundamentals ...