napoleon great leader or monster
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Great leader or Monster?
1. These two sources differ by one supporting Napoleon and one criticising him. Source 2 in the attribution says "extract from a pamphlet criticising Napoleon" and to support this in the source it says "the destroyer, the despiser of men the foreigner. Critical of the French people, careless with French blood." But in source 3 it says "Napoleon represented liberalism and nationalism. He was guardian of liberty and equality." So I think this source is trying to say Napoleon was against slavery and inequality.
2. The sources are different because source 2 was written by the French writer call Chateaubriand who was a former noble who opposed the revolution and served a short time under Napoleon as a diplomat and he disliked Napoleon so that is why he wrote a bad pamphlet about him...