Question

Which is the best description of Napoleon Bonaparte?

He was an extraordinary soldier but not a good commander in chief.
He believed in some Enlightenment ideals but not in social reform.
He believed a return to the monarchy was the only thing to save France.
He refused to sign a peace treaty with the European powers at war’s end.

Answer 1

He believed in some Enlightenment ideals but not in social reform.

Napoleon promoted Enlightenment ideas like legal equality, meritocracy, rational administration and the Napoleonic Code, but he rejected revolutionary democracy and many social changes (limited political freedoms, curtailed women's rights, and even reintroduced slavery in the colonies).