> look at this map, then consider actions like the invasion of spain. id say this was more due to france being his personal kingdom and him preferring the french culture and language in general but he didnt even force anyone he conquered to speak french he just gave them laws against corruption and exploitation and forced local elites to play nice while introducing high quality central economic planning to make sure everyone was well fed and happy and again a lot of the people during the revolution era wanted to return to rome, thats what french revolutionary culture was, leaping as romans as much as possible, people dressed like romans built roman style buildings and furniture had roman hairstyles etc, france even adopted the legal code of the roman empire as its actual code of law literally copy pasted and when you look at the map restoring rome is kinda what he was doing and it wasnt a popular idea only in france, france had no resistance to occupation anywhere outside of spain and spain only had resistance because they were a very religious catholic country where the clergy was afraid of losing their power since the french republic considered the catholic church to be complete frauds who just lied to people for their own power but because of the influence the clergy had over spain they managed to convince the spanish peasants to revolt it didnt happened anywhere else, switzerland loved being part of france, the rhine and netherlands loved it, croatia loved it, italians loved it so much they made the french occupation. flag the official flag of italy later lol so no you can and should be nice to the people you conquer especially if youre the same race as them and again napoleon didnt try that in russia which was a mistake. look at what his army did. just went in a straight line chasing alexander i  youtube.com/watch?v=aevqzcov-bk straight line 0 attempt to win people over for russia
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