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‘Napoleon was the child of the Revolution, but in many ways he reversed the aims and principles of the movement from which he sprang…” Comment.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Origins of Modern Politics

The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte to the throne of France is one of history's sharper ironies — a general made possible only by the Revolution of 1789 who ended by re-erecting a throne it had destroyed.

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  • The Social Order: Continuity with 1789
  • The Political Constitution: Reversal of 1789
  • France and Europe: Empire versus Fraternity of Peoples

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