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Malick W. Ghachem – Foreign Policy

Malick W. Ghachem is a professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Napoleon's incendiary legacy still divides France

Dictatorship and slavery taint the Napoleonic reforms that shaped modern France.

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Napoleon's incendiary legacy divides France 200 years on

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By Lucy Williamson
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On a busy street in the centre of Montauban in southern France, with roadworks blasting the pavement nearby, there is a spot earmarked for a new statue of France's last dictator.
Once Europe's biggest problem, Napoleon Bonaparte is still posing a dilemma for France, 200 years after his death in exile on the Atlantic island of St Helena.
Napoleon was a brilliant military general, who saved the French Revolution and laid the foundations of the modern French state. He also gave Montauban its own county in 1808, despite being less than an hour's drive from Toulouse.

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