Napoleon Bonaparte, a great leader, brilliant mind, efficient administrator, but savior of the revolution? Many historians argue that question. Before we can delve into that we must first examine what exactly were the ideas of the French revolution. The main ideas that constituted the revolution were equal treatment under the law, one degree or another of centralization of the government, elimination of feudal rights, religious tolerance and careers open to talent not birth. With these goals in mind we will now take a look at how napoleon "saved" these ideas from fading away into the back minds of the world and more importantly from having the Bourbons come back into power and return France back towards its ancient regime.…
