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‘The Napoleonic Empire was doomed because of its inherent and self-defeating contradictions.’ Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Origins of Modern Politics

At its height in 1811, the Napoleonic Empire stretched unbroken from the Baltic to the Adriatic, yet within four years it had collapsed as swiftly as it had risen — a fate rooted less in external defeat than in contradictions built into its own foundations.

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