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Napoleon And The Enlightenment
The enlightenment was a time of great learning throughout Europe during the eighteenth century. Although the period is significant for scientific and other scholastic advancements, it is most important because it allowed for the opening of great minds—such as that of Napoleon Bonaparte. Shortly after this enlightenment made its way through Europe, revolution and civil war ripped through France between 1879 and 1899. ... France needed a child of the enlightenment to sew its tattered flag. Napoleon Bonaparte was a child of the enlightenment. ... The enlightenment taught philosophes and scholars religious tolerance by lessening the importance of religion and God in everyday life. As a child of the enlightenment, Napoleon had a similar immunization to the devout and was able to use religion as a tool to accomplish his political ideas and goals. ... Napoleon kept the French church in his pocket. ... As a child of the enlightenment, Napoleon used cold authority and calculation to wield one of the most powerful weapons in the world—religion—and he did it successfully. It is hard to reconcile whether it was Napoleon’s political genius that made him enlightened or whether it was his enlightenment that made him a political genius. ... Everyone who encountered Napoleon Bonaparte were immediately impressed by his amazing wit and blunt intelligence. ... The element of Napoleon’s character that made him enigmatic to France at this time, however, was not eloquence or dazzle but crisp speech filled with reason and calm assurance.
Approximate Word count = 1210
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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