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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 1992
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Napoleon Bonaparte's career is inseparable from the French Revolution of 1789 that produced him, yet the regime he built inverted as much of its programme as it preserved.

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  • The Child of the Revolution: What Napoleon Preserved
  • The Reversal: What Napoleon Undid
  • Historiographical Debate: Continuity or Rupture?

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