Return to order: Napoleon

Today an book about Napoleon(1769-1821) would be less than useless, because the libraries are full, but I want alone identify, in conformity, to the title, the important rule that napoleon has covered for the savage of Revolution; from a youthful anti French, because Napoleon was Corso, this is from Corsica, and he adhered to Revolution from the October of 1789, because the news hopes were born in his wit. In a letter that the Corsica sent of French to institution that given to French the new republican State, the represent of Corsica asked to this institution the extension of National guard also fro the Corsica, and the first sign is of Napoleon; it is the first political document that ratify the presence of Napoleon also in politic, and Saliceti, one of two represent of Corsica in National assembly says clearly that Corsica is French whole. The nationalist ideas of Napoleon are expressed in this step written for a letter that he sent to Matteo Buttafuoco, a represent of Corsica in National assembly in Paris, after the manifestation of groans of Corsica resident, he expresses his revolutionary and nationalist wit: “To enter to service of French you have reached your parents: you find the tyrant defeated and the national govern issued, and the Corsica resident dominated from great sentiments, and concord to contribution of public thing”, other letter is likewise important for this essay, but now is Lucien, brother of Napoleon(1775-1840), that written in a letter to Napoleon, he said, about Paoli represent of Corsica in National assembly: “In our immortal Revolution he has hold alone the crimes of terror”(1792-17949); this step is important, at last in my opinion because that Lucian attributed to Paoli, in truth he would say it to Napoleon, because he after the period of Terror is going to remember this period. Other step from a letter in date 20^th June 1792, he written about the Jacobins: “The Jacobins are crazy, and without of every common sense”, he considered the extremism of this faction, and they are guilt because they can compromise the result of Revolution. It was right Edgard Quinet(1803-1875), French historical man, that has synthesized: “31th May it was decided: “…the renew would has been not through the way of freedom but through the old method, this is the tyranny”; the conflagration between two systems brings one winner that often must use same methods, because the moment demands it. But where the Revolution, as every revolution, failed is in episode that shows the practice wit of French and other countries, because to the end of August, Toulon surrendered to English, between 18^th and 19^th December, for its geographic position, and its harbor; hence the economy overcame the ideal, it always so. I want add a specification, the position of Napoleon that wanted not absolutely the open to Spain and England of Toulon, was the position of Jacobins, hence Napoleon was in that time Jacobin, and it conforms that after became emperor he changed ideas; and a step of a book(Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, Napoleon, p. 73) said a great truth: “One want the end of revolutionary exceptionality for the sureness and for the individual right”; this consideration will have also Napoleon when he become the emperor. Other step of same book says: “He(Napoleon) said often of a theatre of war of relevant importance, where the republic is going to have easy victories and found the peace, this is the Italy”; why Italy? Simple because geographically was very near, and the Italian army were very scant; but the deep and secret motive for the invasion of Italy, about the year 1796, is evident in second part of mention: “…where the republic is going to have easy victories and found the peace, this is the Italy”; the Italy was necessary to keep the calm in French republic, this is the Italy was a motive for the distraction and for to address the French people toward economic resources that could feed the poverty in French; the distractions in policy are necessary always and in every time. The words of Benjamin de Constant, a French politic man that in his letter has written: “I want very much see end of the Revolution, because it could be by now very harmful for the freedom, and it is also one of motive for want very much also the affirmation of Republic…”; it was the think of Napoleon, the extremism has been necessary, but now it would be  harmful for the republic; and other step of same author: “The Republic is the sake, the Revolution has been a way”; this think was also of Napoleon, although I can alone imagine it, but I am sure of this think because he could be become king of French, that he never became; the Republic State could also involved the enemies that during the Terror, 1792-1794, were longest, it is other political think, peer to the think of Caesar, when he unified the social classes in Roman empire, because both the brains, aristocratic brain were necessary, and also the hands, this is the people; hence through the Republic different classes could collaborative to greatness of French, but two classes that Napoleon has unified; but he could unify because he represented a chief, a reference that by now was in the wit of French, he could take the power because the French govern was crowd by weak politic or presumed so, that haven’t nothing a politic plan or a interior strong to end a project, and it explained the period of terror, that was possible because the govern that would have govern wasn’t, because the opposition wasn’t, and evidently the people was boring of very much proclaims that weren’t practice conclusion, and the economy was evidently a disaster, hence the people have to distract through bloody devices as the guillotine, so that the enemies of people were killed; the people would have made a confront: “During the monarchy the condition was serious but the jobs was and the food was, now, in the Revolution, the economy is a disaster and the difficulties are the double, hence was better the monarchy”, was necessary the bloody spectacular, a device always useful, that Napoleon, as we have read above, used addressed the attention of French to Italy. And we can also think or better to ascertain that Napoleon, to save the French Republic become almost autocratic power, although it didn’t never say, to avoid the Terror, when great chief of Revolution were guillotined: Maximilien Robespierre 28^th July 1794, Louis Antoine de Saint Just, George Jacques Danton guillotined in April 1794, Jacques Hébert guillotined in March 1794; these were alone some head of revolutionary chiefs that were victim of internal plots among factions; Napoleon understood that the Revolution would be end and very soon following this way; hence the power formally on the national assembly but effectively in his hands, as Caesar. Therefore Napoleon is become imperator to save the French Republic.

Alessandro Lusana