Napoleon's gain to power; how he sustained it and the effects.
Date Submitted: 12/16/2003 08:36:10
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1263 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 5 pages (1263 words)
One of America's greatest patriots, George Washington, had once stated, "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." Following the years of the French Revolution and the respective Reign of Terror, France was left in disarray, or moreover the irresponsible action the first president had spoken against was ever-present. But, as the …
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…that finally led to his demise. As the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez had stated in her song Jenny From the Block, "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got / I'm Still, I'm Still / Jenny from the block." Likewise Napoleon was still a man from his humble beginnings in Corsica, and although he grew to become the most powerful man in all of Europe, he enacted fair and just legislation that followed enlightened doctrine.
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