Vive la révolution! Vive l'Empereur!

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• drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well sure, but it was mostly to spite the British, so fair game.

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Explanation: After the French Revolution, the French executed their king and declared their allegiance to a REPUBLIC of the French PEOPLE!

  … after a decade of political chaos, the French eagerly embraced an ambitious war hero by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte, who proclaimed himself First Consul of the French Republic, and then, after that, Emperor, to genuine applause and popular support.

  The PEOPLE’S monarchy!

  Napoleon was certainly a very different kind of monarch than the French king who was executed - Napoleon always regarded himself as a tool of the Revolution, and the other monarchs of Europe agreed, with disgust. But it also can’t be denied that Napoleon’s reign included severe democratic backsliding and the concentration of absolute power into the hands of an autocrat, which is pretty contrary to many of the nice, inspiring words proclaimed as the core ideals of the French people during the Revolution.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    THANK YOU. mind if i save your comment and refer people here next time i say “hey, napoleon was not that great?”

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      By all means. Napoleon was certainly a complex figure. While he shows the dangers of autocracy and ambition, he also was, probably, a genuine believer in Enlightenment-era ideals, while many of the anciens regimes against him were positively feudal.

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  • Olap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    See also: Cromwell. Pretty much the same thing a hundred years earlier

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