Why is Napoleon admired (and not seen as the butcher he was) ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038453/The-French-Fuhrer-Genocidal-Napoleon-barbaric-Hitler-historian-claims.html
Napoleon Bonaparte (to avoid any confusion)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1038453/The-French-Fuhrer-Genocidal-Napoleon-barbaric-Hitler-historian-claims.html
Napoleon Bonaparte (to avoid any confusion)
Michael
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Because it was the last time France was a major force in the world. Today they try to act like their great but UK and Germany are the leaders in Europe.
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Because he introduced the Napoleonic Code. The law was favouring the down trodden. He treated his soldiers well. He introduced a new order in Europe.
He was certainly not a butcher. His enemies respected his methods.
Cabal
One - the historians are dubious about that book.
two - Have you read what was done during the Vendée war, or during the Terror in France? That was before Napoleon.
Sir Caustic
Actually, Napoleon wasn't a butcher (though he was quite the amateur baker, apparently). He was a career soldier and, later, a consummate politician and Emperor.
TheSicilianSage
The French admire him because "he brought them greatness" ... The British admire him because they beat him (there's more glory in defeating a "great man" than a butcher) ... The rest of the world knows him for what he was - particularly the Spanish, the Germans, and the Russians.