Question

Evaluate whether Napoleon’s rule represented the fulfillment of the French Revolution or the abandonment of those principles.

Answer 1

Answer:

No, Napoleon's rule definitely did not represent the fulfillment of the French Revolution ideals, because the French Revolution was a liberal revolution, in the sense that it sought the establishment of a new rule where personal liberties where respected, where people were equal before the law, and where the government was accountable to the people, and served the people.

Explanation:

Napoleon on the other hand, was simply a dictator. Perhaps a very skilled and smart dictator, but a dictator nonetheless. He was not accountable to the people, and could do with the country what he pleased. He got France involved in a series of wars (the Napoleonic Wars), imposed his dictatorial rule over most of Western Europe, and caused the dead of thousands of soldiers with his disastrous decision to invade Russia.

Napoleon was like a new monarch, and the French Revolution was so contrary to the monarchy that its leaders beheaded the last French King: Louis XVI. For all these reasons, Napoleon was the opposite to what the French Revolution sought.