“To commemorate is not to celebrate”…
This Byzantine distinction, brandished by the Élysée to signify that Emmanuel Macron was looking for the fairest - the most neutral?
- way of approaching the Napoleon Bonaparte case, is surprising.
The victorious general, the First Consul, the Emperor, is part of the history of France, and in what way!
Just think of what was the life of this little Corsican officer who became master of Europe through his military genius, his energy and his daring, allying his family to the most prestigious European monarchies.
"Caesar and Alexander had a successor",
writes Stendhal from the first words of
La Chartreuse de Parme
.
Civil Code, Council of State, Legion of Honor, high school, gendarmerie…, France's debt to it is immense.
Has he committed any crimes?
Alas, slavery is one, like the death of the Duke d'Enghien, useless and brutal, which was long criticized by historians.
Mistakes, mistakes?
Surely.
Is that why it would take
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