Why isn’t Napoleon given the same status as the Founding Fathers?
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Yes I guess why Americans (and for that matter English) don’t consider an equivalence?
because we have the founding fathers, and the war for liberation is a far more powerful story than the war for conquest. culturally, we just don’t need him.
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Walking around Paris, you notice all the monuments to that era & paintings depicting Napoleon are all so Roman
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There’s a reason the Washington Square Arch in NYC was copied from the original in Paris
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Dostoyevsky shows the stature of Napoleon in Europe in Crime & Punishment. He’s basically the Elon Musk of the era to Europeans. But to me he’s a tyrant
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difficult, spectacular novel
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Although it seems that Napoleon freeing the French proletariat from the yoke of the royals or clergy was a afar more visceral “freeing” than Americans pushing away a king an ocean away.
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is it really liberation if what follows is another tyranny
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