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Correct me if I'm wrong, but last time this happened it didn't go so well for the government
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Didn't go super well for the revolutionaries either
Debatable. The people of France gained more liberties than anyone else in contental Europe at the time. Feudal rights abolished, internal trade barriers stripped away, eventually the best law code the world had seen to that point, etc... It was overwhelmingly positive for the people of France long-term.
Long-term, sure, but they quickly lost most of their gains in the short and medium term when Napoleon restored the monarchy.
Not at all. Napoleon's Empire was extremely enlightened compared to the ancient regime they had been laboring under. He's the one that implemented said law code for instance. It wasn't a republic but in a lot of way Napoleon's reign is what cemented the gains of the Revolution. The institution that made them permanent and helped to forge the concept of the nation of France.
Also don't forget that Napoleon overthrew the dictatorship of the Directory that itself had overthrown the Revolution.
The Directory was dysfunctional but not a dictatorship. I mean, what kind of dictatorship cuts the executive power five ways?
Napoleon's reign is a mixed bag. He did cement some of the gains of the Revolution but it still wasn't a good time to be a woman or a former slave.
Worse than in other countries? Serious question. Women seemed implicated in the revolution a lot for example (not always in a good way). Maybe it freed the mind of people.
From the Wikipedia page "Women in the French Revolution":
"Feminism emerged in Paris as part of a broad demand for social and political reform. These women demanded equality for women and then moved on to a demand for the end of male domination. Their chief vehicle for agitation were pamphlets and women's clubs. The Jacobin element in power abolished all the women's clubs in October 1793 and arrested their leaders. The movement was crushed. Devance explains the decision in terms of the emphasis on masculinity in wartime, Marie Antoinette's bad reputation for feminine interference in state affairs, and traditional male supremacy. A decade later the Napoleonic Code confirmed and perpetuated women's second-class status."
And to expand on that last sentence on the Napoleonic Code:
"With regard to family, the code established the supremacy of the husband over his wife and children, the status quo in Europe at the time. Women had even fewer rights than children. Divorce by mutual consent was abolished in 1804."
No, Napoleon was a tyran and retcon a lot of liberty ; slavery, antisemitic laws, for example. The only legacy of Napoleon that matter is his own propaganda that still exist in France. I would bet that you've followed a French education