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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 in about 200 words.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Napoleon Bonaparte owed his rise entirely to the French Revolution of 1789, yet his rule bent several of its founding ideals into their opposite.

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