However, a social researcher, Karl Loewenstein, postulates an opposition. Although Napoleon contributed the success of the French Revolution, he eventually abandoned the democratic and performed his dictatorship. In the Karl 's book, "Opposition and Public Opinion Under the Dictatorship of Napoleon the First," Napoleon 's dictatorship was illustrated by this quote:
"His rule over France is appropriated termed a dictatorship because it reveals all the features familiar in latter-day dictatorial governments, for which it serves-let it be noted here-as an unequal example. He eliminated successfully the rivaling political factors within the state, he destroyed skilfully the distribution of powers among different power-agencies; thus he gained …show more content…
Since Napoleon has impacted on the French government, they still remained as a subject prolific of controversy. An analysis book, "Stendhal and the Lesson of Napoleon" by Dennis Porter, brought some opinions of Napoleonic legacy. The book mainly shows the viewpoints of Stendhal, a French writer, and analysis about Napoleon 's career, regarding their impacts on the French government. Stendhal claims that Napoleon brought positive effects on France: "It was Napoleon 's great achievement, then, to have brought strong government to France at a moment when the reforms of the Revolution seemed on the point of being swept away" (Porter 459). Then Stendhal postulates three points of Napoleon 's legacy for French …show more content…
Napoleon seemingly encouraged and took importance on the liberty and equality, but some people contradict that he was nothing more than a dictator. According to an article, "Napoleon and Hitler," Napoleon is compared with Hitler, a former German dictator. In the book, what Napoleon did was similar to what Hitler did, and the author, Steven Englund, describes,
"Inside France (as of course outside), public opinion was closely controlled; journalism was greatly reduced in its sources and hedged about with regulations, and, along with literature, was censored; the arts and letters (especially history) were pressed into official service. Political parties were virtually outlawed, and the vibrant, foaming political life of society and regime, as the 1790s had known it, had come to a halt, replaced by cults of "gloire" and "the leader" (l 'Empereur), by centralized administration and by show-by uniforms and soldiers" (Englund 155).
After the declaration of Napoleonic imperial state, Napoleon suppressed the freedom and restricted the expression strictly; his suppression was equivalent to the characteristics of autocracy. Also, because his political features exemplify a dictatorship, he was often compared with
"His rule over France is appropriated termed a dictatorship because it reveals all the features familiar in latter-day dictatorial governments, for which it serves-let it be noted here-as an unequal example. He eliminated successfully the rivaling political factors within the state, he destroyed skilfully the distribution of powers among different power-agencies; thus he gained …show more content…
Since Napoleon has impacted on the French government, they still remained as a subject prolific of controversy. An analysis book, "Stendhal and the Lesson of Napoleon" by Dennis Porter, brought some opinions of Napoleonic legacy. The book mainly shows the viewpoints of Stendhal, a French writer, and analysis about Napoleon 's career, regarding their impacts on the French government. Stendhal claims that Napoleon brought positive effects on France: "It was Napoleon 's great achievement, then, to have brought strong government to France at a moment when the reforms of the Revolution seemed on the point of being swept away" (Porter 459). Then Stendhal postulates three points of Napoleon 's legacy for French …show more content…
Napoleon seemingly encouraged and took importance on the liberty and equality, but some people contradict that he was nothing more than a dictator. According to an article, "Napoleon and Hitler," Napoleon is compared with Hitler, a former German dictator. In the book, what Napoleon did was similar to what Hitler did, and the author, Steven Englund, describes,
"Inside France (as of course outside), public opinion was closely controlled; journalism was greatly reduced in its sources and hedged about with regulations, and, along with literature, was censored; the arts and letters (especially history) were pressed into official service. Political parties were virtually outlawed, and the vibrant, foaming political life of society and regime, as the 1790s had known it, had come to a halt, replaced by cults of "gloire" and "the leader" (l 'Empereur), by centralized administration and by show-by uniforms and soldiers" (Englund 155).
After the declaration of Napoleonic imperial state, Napoleon suppressed the freedom and restricted the expression strictly; his suppression was equivalent to the characteristics of autocracy. Also, because his political features exemplify a dictatorship, he was often compared with