Ahead of his new epic, Scott has caused anger with his comments about his lead character, comparing him to Hitler and Stalin. What's the truth of the matter, asks Neil Armstrong.
."I compare [Napoleon] with Alexander the Great, Adolf Hitler, Stalin. Listen, he's got a lot of bad shit under his belt," he declared, explaining his take on the character.Quoi? Arrête! The French wasted no time in returning fire and correcting the impudent Brit."Hitler and Stalin built nothing and only wrought destruction," Pierre Branda, academic director of the Fondation Napoléon,."Napoleon built things that are still in place today.
But he also waged a series of bloody wars across Europe, establishing an empire that, at its height, stretched from the Iberian Peninsula to Moscow. By 1812, the only areas of Europe free from his control, by direct rule or puppet rule or through alliance, were Britain, Portugal, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire. He was finallyNapoleon and the Napoleonic Wars loomed large in the minds of British people of the period and beyond. Cartoonists were obsessed with him.
"He had a remarkable mind and was the instigator of a body of laws and institutions that we still live by today. "I see Napoleon as a warlord," he says."A man who was driven by personal ambition and who was absolutely ruthless. A man who had a very clear vision of the sort of France he needed to construct and, indeed, the sort of Europe he needed to construct, to support his war machine. Any idea that he was some sort of liberator, some sort of a man of the future – essentially this is all part of the Napoleonic legend.
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