Why isn’t Napoleon given the same status as the Founding Fathers?
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@William_Blake I feel like you would have a good take here1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @_PeterRyan
Among the French he is — they see him as the great modernizer, the bringer or Reason to the continent, the leveler of prestige & superstition...
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Replying to @William_Blake
Yes I guess why Americans (and for that matter English) don’t consider an equivalence?
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Replying to @_PeterRyan @William_Blake
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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Replying to @micsolana @William_Blake
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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Replying to @micsolana @William_Blake
Are you referring to the tyranny of foreign royals dictating the governance of the French people after Napoleon was defeated?
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