napoleon was a counter revolution within revolutionary france. his goal was to reconcile france's royalist past and imperialist future with the progressive drive to modernise. but he had to wrangle the revoltuion to make this viable. as much as everyone here masturbates themselves into a stupour over perfidious albion, "the continental system" was basically. > no trading with britain ever  > we will invade you if you do so in secret (everyone did)
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