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Napoleon shared Paine’s stance and, early on in his rule, was the first Western leader openly to begin instituting what he was to term a system of ‘carrières ouvertes aux talents’, ‘careers open to talent’. ‘I made most of my generals de la boue,’ he proudly remarked on St Helena at the end of his life. ‘Whenever I found talent, I rewarded it.’
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Brother Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte — Napoleon III (1808-1873) was both the first elected president of France and its last reigning monarch. A tumultuous autocrat, he was exiled three times, escaped after being sentenced to life in prison and on other occasions welcomed as a hero. A member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of France,
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Napoléon, tyran ou libérateur ? Si la Révolution se réduit à une entreprise de lutte pour la liberté, Napoléon est le fossoyeur des principes de 1789. Son antiparlementarisme, son autoritarisme, son impérialisme guerrier l’apparentent à César. Mais, si la Révolution se définit comme un combat pour l’égalité, l’Empereur en fut le plus ardent
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