What are similarities between Robespierre and Napoleon? I think it's quite interesting, since one's downfall lead to another rising to power. At first both succeeded in helping France; however, they were both consumed by power and soon claimed to become emperors and even God like figures. What do you think?
2007-12-17 17:13:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Robespierre was much more personal in his power. Napoleon wasn't small in his thoughts as Robespierre was, he chose to unite Europe under one law (effectively an extension of nationalism). Robespierre was also one of a couple of powerful people, and Napoleon was an emperor. Correlation? both had power in a new way in a new France, but moved too swiftly for the populace to appreciate.
2007-12-17 17:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by ellesovo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Napoleon Robespierre
2016-12-17 05:42:38 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "revolutionary purity" of Robespierre's Convention government led to France tolerating his overthrow and replacement by the corrupt bourgeois government of the Directory, and then tolerating the overthrow of the Directory by the military dictatorship of Bonaparte. ORDER was preferable to the excesses of the Terror.
Robespierre's government expropriated the Church, proclaimed the Feast of the Supreme Being as a substitute for liturgical holidays, and abolished slavery in the French colonies. Bonaparte restored slavery, concluded a Concordat with the Church, and created a new nobility and court based on himself and his marshals.
One might regard Robespierre, roughly, as the archetypal leftist revolutionary Maximum Leader, and Bonaparte as the prototype for the fascist military strongman. Bonaparte's secret police were probably more efficient, but Robespierre "purged" or "liquidated" more of his "party" and "class" enemies.
Bonaparte's power base was of course the army, but also the peasantry who didn't want to return the Church lands they had been distributed and the merchant class who benefited from the captive markets and favorable trade terms his conquests created. Robespierre's support came from the Paris mob, "to the Max".
2007-12-17 18:37:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Robespierre was an idealist: he wanted to create and establish a Utopian society. The power he came to wield, went to his head, and was the cause of his downfall.
Napoleon was a pragmatist: intent on both self-aggrandizement, and the glorification of France. Needless to say from a practical point of view, the latter was far more successful than the former.
Wotan
2007-12-17 18:28:45 · answer #4 · answered by Alberich 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Your observations are astute. While Robespierre was a idealistic politician who inflamed the passions of others, Napoleon used his military success to fuel his popularity and ambition. In the end, both were dictators who cared most about their power.
2007-12-17 17:25:04 · answer #5 · answered by adphllps 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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I noticed this before too. All the people I knew back in the Monica Lewensky ordeal, who were all in a tizzy about the sex going on between her and Bill, didn't give a hoot about the perjury. These in general were the people I knew who gossiped and cheated and lied as a way of life. But they do love being scandalized. Maybe scandalizability is an easy substitute for real morality.
2016-04-09 06:02:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋