Why Is Napoleon Bonaparte Good Or Bad
Many believe that Napoleon Bonaparte did great things for France and changed the way things were. He was actually a selfish, greedy, and power-hungry man who only did things to further him and make him seem like a great leader to the people of his country. All of his ideas had alterative motives to them and what you saw on the surface was never truly what it was. The quote “To my mind, the only immortality is the memory we leave behind in the minds of men. Everything else on earth is soon forgotten except the opinion we leave imprinted on history” from Napoleon meant that to him his legacy and what he was remember for was more than anything else. I meant that no matter what he did it did not matter as long as his people would have a good opinion
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However the only part of their things that was truly theirs was their trinkets and nothing else, the man still had all the power of the rest of the property and the woman was expected to obey and be submissive to her husband. The man still had complete control of all the property and could do what they want with it without permission from the wife even if it was something that she had brought into the relationship with her, it was under her husband’s control and there was nothing she could do. The inequality between what was acceptable for the man and the woman was continued into this era in France. A husband’s adultery was not grounds for divorce unless he had brought his mistress into his home, while if the wife was to commit adultery it was most certainly grounds for divorce and she could be jailed for up to 3 months. Napoleons own views on women where that they were not capable for anything but to mind the house and childrearing. In 1817 he said “Women should not be regarded as the equals of men; they are, in fact mere machines to make children” he himself did not believe that women were any more people than livestock that farmers had. He regarded them as property and under control of their husbands. His views on women set France farther back on their way to equality and are one of the reasons that while most western countries gave women the right to vote in the 1920s France did not until
However the only part of their things that was truly theirs was their trinkets and nothing else, the man still had all the power of the rest of the property and the woman was expected to obey and be submissive to her husband. The man still had complete control of all the property and could do what they want with it without permission from the wife even if it was something that she had brought into the relationship with her, it was under her husband’s control and there was nothing she could do. The inequality between what was acceptable for the man and the woman was continued into this era in France. A husband’s adultery was not grounds for divorce unless he had brought his mistress into his home, while if the wife was to commit adultery it was most certainly grounds for divorce and she could be jailed for up to 3 months. Napoleons own views on women where that they were not capable for anything but to mind the house and childrearing. In 1817 he said “Women should not be regarded as the equals of men; they are, in fact mere machines to make children” he himself did not believe that women were any more people than livestock that farmers had. He regarded them as property and under control of their husbands. His views on women set France farther back on their way to equality and are one of the reasons that while most western countries gave women the right to vote in the 1920s France did not until