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How did Napoleon fuse the France of the ancient regime with the France of the postrevolutionary era?

  • UPSC 2012
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Napoleon Bonaparte's genius as a statesman lay not in choosing between the old France and the new, but in welding them into a single durable structure.

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