The Arts

1. Napoleon Bonaparte road the coattails of the enlightenment era. He utilized some of the famous philosopher’s ideas to brain wash the people into thinking that he wasn’t a tyrant but he was the people’s king. One of the ways Bonaparte was influenced by the enlightenment thinkers was how he personally founded schools for boys of merit. The schools were giving the young men a chance to advance. He actually was a great General. He was the first to successfully stabilize the already weakened economy of France. Although Bonaparte was a great leader he was not the embodiment of the enlightenment he abandoned his troops numerous amount of times. He was a firm believer in the use of propaganda. After every victory he would have a portrait made to depict his victory. After he talked his way into power he didn’t even let the Pope crown him he took the crown from the Pope and crowned himself showing that he had more power than the Pope. I would dare say that Napoleon Bonaparte that his intentions at the beginning was to become the people’s king and that he would do right by all of his followers because he wasn’t born into power. On the other hand I would be lying to myself to believe such lies he knew what he was doing from the beginning. He had to convince a lot of already angry people with the failed Monarchy and Economy. The foundation was already laid all he had to do and show up like a hero on his white horse and fix the problems of Louis XVI.

2. Napoleon Bonaparte’s reign was quite different from what had previously existed. He was an average man the came to power by working his way up the chain to where he eventually took his power. Bonaparte eventually met his demise by being to ambitious. Austrian foreign minister Prince Clemens Van Metternich was the total opposite. He was a very conservative ruler who believed that there should be one Church, one Language and one Czar. While Bonaparte tried to take power from existing countries Metternich wanted to organize...