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[โ€“] Rothe@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Most of the people responsible for killing the king wasn't really around on the political scene (a lot of them not even alive) at the time Napoleon became an emperor.

[โ€“] PugJesus@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago

Directly responsible, no. But it was widely celebrated at the time, at least by the urban population of bourgeois and proletariat, and many of those people went on to become enthusiastic supporters of Bonaparte.