WILT: Napoleon was an Able Politician
In my last Napoleon post, I shared my surprise at learning that this famous Frenchman wasn’t even French.
Now, I find out that Napoleon didn’t win all his battles leading up to his self-coronation. He was just very good at telling the French people that he was a winner. He knew the importance of controlling information and effective propaganda.
The tireless energy that helped him be so effective as a military leader also led him to do some really remarkable things as ruler of a country. In many ways, he betrayed the revolutionary democratic movement that swept away the royals, but he was also the one who codified equality and brotherhood into French society through new laws and merit-based promotions.