Features
- Approximately 2.5 tall
- All metal construction
- Hand painted and ready for display
Many inside and outside of France consider Napoleon the epitome of French achievement and a bit of a paradox. While he subjugated much of Europe he also established the Napoleonic Code granting Liberté Egalité Fraternité (first promised during the French Revolution) to much of his country. He destroyed the first French republic by force yet led the construction of the modern French state with the creation of an innovative education system and the founding of the Bank of France. The French writer and historian François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand was a contemporary and monarchist who despised Napoleon but later grew to admire him. His final judgement on Bonaparte read Living he failed in the world. Dead he conquered it.