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Let them haz cake! (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by TokenBoomer to c/politicalmemes

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[–] weeabooextract 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Napoleon, despite the whole "overthrowing republic in favour of monarchy" thing is considered to be one of the main reasons the ideals of the Revolution managed to stick in Europe. Napoleonic Code was a piece of legislation far more progressive than most of that era, and continued to be used in many countries that were subservient to Napoleonic France until the 20th century.