Two Centuries Later: Napoleon's Eternal Triumph

[@TLOK1918]

*"And now, let us go home to die."* --Jeannot de Moncey, Governor of Les Invalides and one of Napoleon's last surviving marshals. 86 years old and agonizingly ill for the last two weeks, he begged his doctor to keep him alive just long enough to see the Emperor's body returned to France in December 1840, and uttered these words after witnessing the grand funeral ceremony and then walking with difficulty to the casket to pay respects to his old master. "O frozen sky! and sunlight pure! shining bright in history! Funereal triumph, imperial torch! Let the people's memory hold you forever, Day beautiful as glory, Cold as the tomb." --Victor Hugo, _Les Rayons et les Ombres_

[@Kylo_ren518]

The first passage made me incredibly sad, I cant help but wonder how the world would be had Napoleon kept his rule of France. 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷Vive L'empereur🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@alfredct602]

Let's go and get killed

[@davids500s]

Hey man. Love your videos. Question, is it possible for you to share this video in private kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3eagpKDhritpdk ? It is "Napoleon's Little Dark Age" video. It is a shame that youtube seems to have taken it down...

[@francis9428]

"The legend may have died, but what he did that made him legendary lives on." -Unknown Soldier

[@Cortesevasive]

haha baquette man waves white flag, haha baquette man muslim haha

[@Shisnoparadoxe]

@@Cortesevasive Haha biggest amount of military Victory hahaha UK first french colony and America too

[@Cortesevasive]

@@Shisnoparadoxe military victory you mean napoleon? guy abdicated twice instead of killing himself like a true man xD:

[@Shisnoparadoxe]

@@Cortesevasive bah i mean ours whole military History made of true warriors who didn't hide behind Infinite coalitions like mots european countries did especially the brits. But hey what were we expecting form those cowards who didn't even fight at the begining of thé WW2 or who sent 5 countries against us while ours emperor couln't die like a real man but still managed to kick ass for 15 years 😏. Let's end the debate here salty go bye a History Book and stay in your shithole. 😘

[@Cortesevasive]

@@Shisnoparadoxe no need to stay in my shithoele country i can always come to your baquette land and enjoy nice wellfare xD and you gonna need to work two jobs to support my 8 kids xD

[@sauceyeti4381]

I take pride in yelling the words *"Long live the Emperor"*

[@JLWestaz]

He was poisoned by the British.

[@xxx-ve1wt]

THAT'S THE SPIRIT

[@Lord_Of_Aether]

I’m not a monarchist, but even I take pride in yelling “VIVE L’EMPEREUR!”.

[@napoleonbonaparte2001]

I love you Napoléon I!!!!!!

[@rose72br]

Vive l'Empereur! Greetings from Brazil 🇫🇷❤️🇫🇷❤️🇫🇷

[@loganpeet467]

“There is no immortality but the memory that is left in the minds of men,to have lived without glory,without leaving a trace of ones existence,is not to have lived at all” Napoleon.

[@larrygraysmith8411]

If Napoleon Bonaparte would see what has become from France, he'd be ashamed!

[@larrygraysmith8411]

@Hawg Hathword indeed

[@igottheshaft]

He would immediately set forth in action to take power and save France. Napoleon didn't focus on defeat, but on the glory of victory. The greater the battle, the greater the glory.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

Are you people for real!? Bonaparte was a foreigner in France!! His wife was a foreigner so was his second wife. Get yourselves informed before you glorify the LePens and/Napoleon. Uneducated idiots.

[@igottheshaft]

@@Vee_of_the_Weald Please tell me that you're not French.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

@Hawg Hathword Nice vocabulary, Sir. Not only are you a racist with fascist ideologies but you’re also vulgar and pathetic. As they say in France “Pauvre Con!”

[@tonyhawk94]

These legends appears only once every millenia, Alexander, Cesar, Napoleon

[@madhatter4417]

I have a weird admiration for Napoléon, which is i don't think he is a good person but he is so cool i mean like really cool. How he improved France and became an emperor, though he was not coming from an important royal family (his family was considered as royal but it was so new) but still he had enough power to rule all of the Europe. A great genius.

[@TLOK1918]

This is, more or less, my assessment as well.

[@lupus5338]

It's because he was different from all others conquerors. He was just like us lol He was from a not so high nobility, he was bullied, he studied about conquerors and liked studying about history, he was a normal guy. He gives us an image that we can accomplish big things even though we're normal. I don't know if I express that well... English is not my first language.

[@zeroxcqt2862]

Man finished Révolution in my country ,give pride to our People after Louis XVI betrayed us ,Give pride to Egyptian by starting Egyptologia, and try to unite all of Europe by taking the role of Consul and re starting a new Roman Empire because at this time 8 of the 9 greatest countries were allied against us..If I speak french today, its likely thanks to him

[@napoleonbonaparte2001]

Actually Napoleon was a GREAT Christian man!😁

[@ΣτάθηςΤσαβαρης]

Greetings from Greece... I love France... I love Napoleon!!!

[@napoleonbonaparte3269]

Zağol zanımın izi

[@LeeRenthlei]

True definition of self-made man.

[@jeffkodiac]

One of the greatest man who ever lived . Thanks for this video .

[@napoleonbonaparte2001]

He sure was

[@-Mars-_]

Vive l'Empereur ! 🇲🇫🇲🇫🇲🇫

[@rajd5155]

We salute u for unbreakable love and patriotism towards France as an indian( tamilan) we pay our homage to the greatest tactician and warrior in French history

[@cannibalcorpse75]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't almost all the wars in Napoleon's time started by the coalitions, not France? So what if he took over land and made nations bow to his will. They would have all done the same thing, and did it in the end.

[@TLOK1918]

You're not wrong. The War of the First Coalition was declared by the French Republic, but this was before Napoleon was even a captain. The only two conflicts he personally started were the Peninsular War and the Invasion of Russia, for the latter of which he had valid justifications. All other conflicts of the Revolutionary and "Napoleonic" Wars were started by the Allies.

[@cannibalcorpse75]

@@TLOK1918 Thank you. People make it like he's a Hitler or something, but if your country gets attacked, you have to fight back.

[@archivesoffantasy5560]

@@cannibalcorpse75 not only that but Napoleons laws were far more progressive than his European counterparts. He gave fair rights to Jews ended serfdom lifting people out of peasantry. Made education more accessible but without the total influence of the church (secular schools) national banks, the metric system. He sure knew how to run a country

[@akworldinfo-m9s]

Everyone in this line of comments, you all are awesome❤️❤️❤️

[@Dannyboi-re7vb]

napoleon is in his own league but he was the alexander the great of the modern era a man taken to soon

[@theironknight597]

Vive L'Empreur Vive Napoléon Vive La France

[@wwemusicworld3837]

Vive I' Empereuer from Inde

[@AntifascistArmenian]

Viva Napoleon! Much respect from Argentina

[@soulesstailplayz2052]

Vive la France! Vive la Patrie! Vive l’Empereur

[@filipjezercic9735]

This video is abosolute art. Napoleon was perhaps Europes greatest conqureror and he would have had it all if not for poeple who didnt wanna see thier "precious" oppresive empires fall and freedom be given to their people. Vive l' Emperour. May he rest in eternal Glory. 🇫🇷

[@60x-byugsheladia59]

yoooo another very gentle reminder to reupload the napoleons dark age on youtube or any other site if possible. imma really do be missing it, so would be nice... yeah thats all man appreciate your work

[@orthodoxcaucasian9468]

he was Best soldier best General best leader and the Emperor!!!

[@olivierfrance6864]

The number one

[@robertmahler8894]

I wonder what Napoleon would do seeing France the way it is today? What would he say and do to stop the emergence of the Islamic Republic of France?

[@shahsaud2625]

I wonder what he would say about bombing Libya and carrying out atrocities in Algeria

[@FieldMarshalYT]

Napoleon greatly respected Islam and made sure his soldiers were civil to the Muslim populace in Egypt. Leave your reactionary politics out of history.

[@rhysnichols8608]

@@FieldMarshalYT Respecting a foreign religion, and having your nation cuckhold to it are drastically different things. French people are being ethnically replaced as well as suffering sky rocketing crime rates. Of course Napoleon would vomit at this. And what’s wrong with reactionary politics? I’d be concerned if people didn’t react to their cultural death

[@12stem.b-obenita]

@@FieldMarshalYT well you have to be respectful when visiting other countries

[@adammohamadali1891]

Napoleons closes confidant was a Muslim, it was his Mameluke guard who he befriended in Egypt…. I don’t think Napoleon would be happy about the ethnic replacement taking place in France, however, he would equally be disgusted by Frances’s meddling in the Middle East.

[@sandi2100___]

Vive l'empereur !!!

[@60x-byugsheladia59]

Yo, a gentle reminder to reupload the napoleon dark age video if possible

[@christmar67]

Vive l'empereur Napoléon ! Dieu sauve la France !

[@Bloopsan]

Vive l'Empereur !

[@ipekerduran3490]

I've never clicked so fast... :") 🇫🇷 🖤

[@TLOK1918]

Damn Bonapartists in this family, through and through.

[@barancelik6a]

Bununla bir üç yıl dalga geçerim iyi oldu

[@TheFearsomePredator]

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[@60x-byugsheladia59]

hey ma man, the little dark age vid is no more, can you repost it? really loved the vid and its been copyrighted so yeah

[@GodSavetheWest]

I am a proud spanish yet I implore, LONG LIVE THE EMPEROR

[@arigam1488]

Why did you delete your videos? :((((((((

[@congthanhdanhtoai1906]

Vive L'empereur! Vive La Grande Armée!

[@TheQuasarDragon1706]

Vive L'Empereur des Français

[@sonnyb7612]

Repost that little dark age vid if your able.

[@60x-byugsheladia59]

oh wow, nice to see someone like me regularly watching his napoleon's edit with lil dark age, realy loved it, hopefully he reuploads it

[@sonnyb7612]

@@60x-byugsheladia59 yeah I'd get kinda hyped listening to that vid. The awesomeness/epicness of the Emporers life in the pictures and the good music would get me ready before doing a lift.

[@whataboutthedroidattackont6989]

@ferhat erduran bro i want ur napoleon's little dark age vid. It's been blocked by KZbin

[@emperornapoleon6204]

You had best believe I will return.

[@elenaracansky5424]

Greatest man to have lived.

[@intelligentswaggers8133]

VIVE L'EMPEREUR!!!

[@Assassinigaming8]

Vive le emprur

[@Ale15072]

Perfect video

[@coopermcdowell4811]

Why did KZbin remove your Napoleons little dark age video? Is there any way you can repost it? I really loved that video.

[@henricothemonke1692]

What happened to the little dark age?

[@NapoleonFrench-i3u]

Where is the Little Dark Age (Napoleon)???

[@davidecapretti8583]

A great man The emperor general and soldier His parents was italians from Toscana Is for France but a bit italian

[@Jaunekoz]

the Greatest to have ever walked on this earth.

[@glocksmith226]

Can anyone tell me starting intro music

[@Evannnnnn]

Bonjour, j'adore votre chaine donc merci de produire ce contenu. J'appréciais beaucoup Little Dark Age que vous aviez fait sur Napoléon, l'avez-vous sur un drive ou autre pour la partager malgré son retrait de KZbin ?

[@akworldinfo-m9s]

Yes it is agreed that Napoleon's age was "little dark age", but if we all look on the other side of the coin....It was the precursor of a Great Golden Era for the whole world!!!

[@NovaEmotion]

pls Add your video called napoleon master of europe !

[@Isa-hk8xf]

What happened to ur other videos?

[@ottocihat1805]

Ya reis bazı videoların silinmiş keşke onları geri yüklesen

[@NovaEmotion]

Dude pls can you add your video Napoleon master of Europe !!!! ?!

[@ottocihat1805]

Çok sevdiğim bir napoleon editin vardı kaldırılmış olmasına çok üzüldüm

[@Leon-oc4em]

That really sounded like skyrim in the beginning

[@pyro0043]

Vive l'empereur ! Vive la famille Bonaparte, seule et unique famille légitime au trône de France !

[@heldkimbly627]

VIVE L'EMPEREUR 🇫🇷 ET PAR ST MAURICE VIVE L'INFANTERIE 🇫🇷

[@democracyisnon-negociable3819]

LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ

[@МихаилВоробьёв-у1б]

Классно, песня как раз от народа, врагов Франции, на тот момент )))

[@Cba409]

Vive le'Emperur!!

[@Jack_804]

What happend to france?

[@wiel5908]

Thanks napoleon, your invasion of Portugal made the King flee to Brazil

[@justinpolanco5046]

What was the beginning music?

[@charizard25.]

Why did you delete your edit video?

[@sauronmordor7494]

oui

[@potemkin8606]

Çok güzel bir iş yapmışsın Ferhat Kardeşim

[@hamthegreatvi785]

" Don't worry guys I'm just like my uncle we can beat the Prussians" - Nepolion III

[@AlexC-ou4ju]

I mean he did beat the Russians so it's kinda understandable he thought so!

[@petercroves8562]

too bad he is not in my family tree!, though my family fought against him-i want to rise my family from the grave and in the grain I want to rule -thu I still think I need to 1st find a good woman to be my mate as the 1st step of rising the dead into living history and destroy those who destroyed my family-my quest for her began in July 89, my quest for revenge began in 2012-for him, he is with the Lord!, a little girl on a faraway place led him to the Lord!, females can be very powerful 1

[@thedailybibleverseawordfro8922]

Emperor Napoleon was great chase player to the world 🎭🌌🌌🌌but he is far than me because I can play with 🎭 family even I'm not king😂

[@kayraaa24]

vive l' emperur, rest in peace and don't invade russia in winter, gretaest general of all time.

[@napoleonbonaparte2001]

He was forced to invade Russia. Vive l’empereur!

[@claytonroach1343]

I have the Little Dark Age video if anyone wants it.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

I’m sorry people… but this very romantic depiction of Napoleon is not accurate. Hear me out: my ancestors are from Corsica, where the Bonapartes are from and we (the Corsicans and the French) all have a lot of respect and pride regarding the man’s achievements… BUT… Napoleon also used his men as canon fodders, rampaged and pillaged countless countries, systematically raping women and burning villages to the ground just to make a point. Just Google Napoleon’s crimes and you’ll get the full pictures. It’s nothing to feel proud of, I promise you.

[@TLOK1918]

Correct, this (and my other work) _is_ a romanticization of Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars--it is not meant to be taken as a historical documentary. Nothing you watch on KZbin is a substitute for reading a proper biography. I say in the description of my first video that I don't intend this to be educational material. I do it primarily for my own pleasure, and any other history enthusiast is free to enjoy my work. If you don't, that's fine. About any alleged "crimes" of Napoleon, if you care to point me to specific cases, I'd be happy to give my analysis (a commonly given example is the execution of the PoWs at Jaffa.) As for pride, I certainly don't "feel proud" of any achievement of other men--I can't be proud of something I had no part in. These videos are not my endorsement of Napoleon as a man or a political leader. There are certain aspects of him that I admire a great deal, and certain aspects that I dislike vehemently. Lately I've been getting a lot of this type of comment, and I hope I've made my position clear.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

@@TLOK1918 Another concern is the amount of comments regarding the Muslims in France and how the far Right should come and take over and the “Napoleon would have”. No he wouldn’t. He was laughted at by the French when he arrived on the continent from Corsica (where he grew up. The Bonapartes are Corsican nobility) because he had a “foreign accent”. How about that?! Your commentators are calling for hatred and bigotry. YOU shouldn’t be very proud of your subs. Just saying.

[@TLOK1918]

​@@Vee_of_the_Weald Amusing. I just told you that I don't feel proud (or guilty) for the actions of other people--only for my own--and your characterization of who is "far right" is of little relevance. I make a point of not moderating the comment section. Bigots and hateful people have the right to speak their mind. If their hatred is irrational, they make fools of themselves in full view. You are free to judge them, disassociate from them, but not forcibly silence them. I don't delete comments, no matter my personal opinion of them, _unless_ someone is explicitly calling for violence. So far, I haven't had to delete any. If you'd like to report people for "hate speech", that's your prerogative. If KZbin decides to remove their comments, that's their prerogative.

[@Vee_of_the_Weald]

@@TLOK1918 It’s that kind of laisser-faire that sends people to the gas chamber for being from the wrong skin colour, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation. I’m all for liberty of speech, but when a group of people are repeatedly calling for LePen to come to power in France, I get a strong déjà-vu of the 1930’s in Germany… However you’re right, it’s your channel… you’re lucky they haven’t yet worked out that you could very well be a Muslim yourself and decide to come after you. Will you then let them spill their blind hatred still without any reaction?

[@clarkhull7546]

@@Vee_of_the_Weald Sir you're taking this to an absurd level. The man made his position clear and now you believe he is winking at genocide? C'mon this a YT video. Not the einsatzgruppen.

[@pm71241]

This was weird ... Sure... Napoleon was no "hitler" or "stalin" ... but ... this seems like an over-the-top personality cult.

[@TLOK1918]

You should see the shrine I built in my room. I pray to Napoleon five times a day while reciting from memory the dates of all his battles, so that he will grant health and good fortune to my family.

[@pm71241]

@@TLOK1918 I honestly prefer to play them with hexes and counters.

[@JLWestaz]

Try as I might I have fail to see what he accomplished or achieved.

[@TLOK1918]

I was oscillating between "Try harder" and a serious response. Here's the serious response: "Napoleon Bonaparte was the founder of modern France and one of the great conquerors of history. He came to power through a military coup only six years after entering the country as a penniless political refugee. As First Consul and later Emperor, he almost won hegemony in Europe, but for a series of coalitions specifically designed to bring him down. Although his conquests ended in defeat and ignominious imprisonment, over the course of his short but eventful life he fought sixty battles and lost only seven. For any general, of any age, this was an extraordinary record. Yet his greatest and most lasting victories were those of his institutions, which put an end to the chaos of the French Revolution and cemented its guiding principle of equality before the law. Today the Napoleonic Code forms the basis of law in Europe and aspects of it have been adopted by forty countries spanning every continent except Antarctica. Napoleon’s bridges, reservoirs, canals and sewers remain in use throughout France. The French foreign ministry sits above the stone quays he built along the Seine, and the Cour des Comptes still checks public spending accounts more than two centuries after he founded it. The Légion d’Honneur, an honor he introduced to take the place of feudal privilege, is highly coveted; France’s top secondary schools, many of them founded by Napoleon, provide excellent education and his Conseil d’État still meets every Wednesday to vet laws. Even if Napoleon hadn’t been one of the great military geniuses of history, he would still be a giant of the modern era." --Andrew Roberts, _Napoleon: A Life_

[@JLWestaz]

@@TLOK1918 His civilian record I'm aware of it's is somewhat impressive. Military he was a mess. Depending on how you count defeats you could say he only had 6. I count the entire Egyptian campaign a defeat. If going into Russia with 560,000 men and returning with 20,000 men and a postcard of Moscow isn't a defeat what is? One at the hands of the 6th coalitions and Waterloo (7th coalition). The point is: He lost the 'Big Ones', The ones that really counted for more than a battle. He was trying to dominate Continental Europe right or wrong, and freeze England out of trade with his European Kingdom. Ignoring the fact that almost no one wanted to be a part of the empire, thus continuous war. He failed miserably at his goal and would up on a rock in the Atlantic, probably poisoned by the British. More than one historian has taken the stance that it took 50 or 60 years for France to recover from Napoleon. He certainty threw away at least two generations of French youth. Neither you nor I can say if two generation of French youth would have done what Napoleon did for France. Sadly no one can ask the 530,000 he left in Russia.

[@TLOK1918]

@@JLWestaz His evident failures are known to anyone with a glancing familiarity with modern history, and you're moving the goalpost. You asked for a list of his accomplishments and achievements--I've provided it. If you don't consider those as such, that's your prerogative. I won't go into a debate about the goals of the two invasions he launched and the myriad causes for his defeats. I'll simply recommend readers to keep in mind that he fought the whole of Europe for twenty years, and that it took seven coalitions of the most powerful nations of the time to bring him down, mostly through attrition and sheer numbers. I leave it to the reader's judgment whether that's a bad general or not.

[@charlesbarton3059]

Death and destruction with ultimate defeat

[@archivesoffantasy5560]

@@JLWestaz militarily he was a mess? 57 wins 8 losses. All losses partially to severely outnumbered. Yes Russia was a total disaster but pitched battle by pitched battle Napoleon was the greatest hence the trachenberg plan: allies outnumber him 2:1 with their armies of veterans and yet are afraid to face his much smaller army of conscripted teenagers

[@aintankha6617]

I like him cuz he converted to Islam on his death island

[@samuelornerio]

False and cope😊

[@martynparkman6336]

How many Frenchmen died due to his ambitions. That ended on the field of Waterloo.

[@TLOK1918]

How many men of all nations died throughout history for the ambitions of their rulers? That will hardly end on any field of battle for as long as man exists. This side of Napoleon is no different than any other king, emperor or modern bureaucratic/political elite. An objective judge must evaluate each of these based on the _goal_ of their ambitions, in the context of their times. And such a judge of history would deem it unjust to load all the responsibility for casualties on the shoulders of one ruler while acquitting the other European monarchs of their share of the blame. Men died in the "Napoleonic" Wars not because of one man's ambition, but because their respective leaders chose to resort to violence instead of reason, just like most other periods of history, and because they chose to follow them. That is all.

[@martynparkman6336]

@@TLOK1918 So was Napoleon and his aim at European domination any better than Hitler.

[@bradmahr2010]

@@martynparkman6336 with a parochial view like that no. But, individual freedoms as a principle was spread by napoleon. And the spark of constitutional monarchies was finished which ushered in liberal parliamentary systems. That is what Napoleon is known for. Not a shallow juxtaposition to Hitler.

[@martynparkman6336]

@@bradmahr2010 Really, Napoleon declared himself an emperor, I don't think he in the least bit interested in exporting Liberal democracies.

[@bradmahr2010]

@@martynparkman6336 you just don't know his civil code or the history enough.

[@fabricethull9193]

VIVE L'EMPEREUR !!!!!