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Does this apply to Napoleon?
Cause he was an absolute chad!
Our modern life wouldn’t have been like this without the Napoleonic code.
Edit: thought people would catch the slight sarcasm cause I used the absolute chad meme, but just in case: there are no good conquerors.
Napoleon was not a "chad". He was a horrible warmonger that helped destabilize nearly all of Europe for decades, even centuries in some parts
You realized that he never started any of the wars. It was always the rest of europe wanting to crush this democracy thing.
Neither Napoleon's consulate nor his empire were democratic. Even the directory that he overthrew only stayed in power by nullifying electoral results that they didn't like.
Lol his empire was just him appointing his dumbass relatives (and his somewhat less dumbass friends) as kings. It couldn't have been less democratic if he'd tried.