Napoleon and His Authority
Napoleon and His Authority

Summary/Abstract: Napoleon, his meteoric personality and the same activity left an indelible mark in the history of humanity. Being a soldier, warrior he at the sametime was enormously attentive to the civilian fields, understood and highly appreciated their importance for the life of society. He was born by revolution,but being its son he always tried his best to streamline revolutionary chaos andbring society into a balanced condition. He is still treated as an usurper,dictator, but what kind of governance was his sole rule? He was soldier, but hadmilitaries any superiority over other, civilian bodies in the field of rule and country politics? The answer is irrefutably negative. Being highly appreciated,the militaries were just an ornament of the life of society, manifestation of glory and bravery. Civil bodies always were on the top of the social ladder, never had been subjugated by military ones. Napoleon always stressed the superiority of civil bodies and civilian statesmen over military ones. The success of his coupd’etat was predetermined by the hatred which ruling bodies caused in grassroots. Being sole ruler he embodied the achievements of Revolution in legal code and created political system which guaranteed promotion to any subject of Republic and later of Empire too notwithstanding of the social origin of the status seeker. Popularity of his authority was proved at least by por-Bonapartistrallies and slogans while post-Waterloo days. Therefore his authority gained specific name – Bonapartism, i.e. regime supported by broad layers of the population, or as an national unity, the protection of public order, social equality, and the inviolability of the individual and private property.

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