powers.
After further research on Napoleon’s death, it was suspected that the Bourbons had
him slowly and unsuspectingly poisoned with arsenic out of their fear that he would rise
up again 73. Napoleon’s main tactic was fear and so he had ultimately won. Napoleon
wanted other powers to know his strength and superiority. Starting off in a small town as
a young man with willpower and manipulation, Napoleon climbed to the top and created
what he had lacked before: an enormous empire that he could truly call his own. He gave
hope to many who had lost it during the Revolution. Many of the ideas and reforms that
he proposed and created are still in use today. ” Some stress his magnetism, his charm, his
enormous energy and industry; others emphasize his arrogance, egotism, and contempt for
human life ” 74. Even so, the legend of Napoleon Bonaparte lives