I agree with most of the negative comments about him here on this list. He shook up many sclerotic old traditions of the countries he conquered, but the cost was too high, and his motives were bad.

John, if you dislike the frogs so, then you must surely dislike the first Republican party (Jefferson and Madison), for their nearly consistent francophilia. They admired the revolution in its bloodiest phases, professed to dislike Napoleon, yet often found themselves doing his bidding. Their anglophobia by contrast rarely wavered.