NAPOLEON FROM ANOTHER SIDE

Abstract

What does another Napoleon mean? In this paper, we will try to answer this interesting question as much as possible. The fact that nothing has been written about it in the Georgian language, it has a scientific-popular character, has a purely cognitive load and is a compilation, is the main reason why we are unable to speak on this difficult issue. It will help students to understand this difficult issue. The present work aims to fill this vacuum in Georgian historiography.
Napoleon created an image that he was a great general, a conqueror, a sole ruler, a dictator. In fact it really is. This opinion undoubtedly contains a rational grain of truth. We do not see anything unacceptable in it and no one disputes it.
This is one side of the medal, which must be said to be directly on the surface, the top, visible, part of the iceberg and is well read, but it should not be enough and it never gives us a complete, comprehensive, idea of Napoleon’s work. Some thing doesn’t fit in the frame. Some component is missing. There is another side to the coin. Napoleon’s triumphant military successes, i.e. as it is called “military Bonapartism”, is the priority, and the second is no less interesting and important,
his law-creating activities, legislation, reforms, i.e. as it was called “administrative Bonapartism” were relatively less in the spotlight. Having been overshadowed and seen as a peripheral topic, recent historiography is trying to correct this relevance,
and the issue has been increasingly given more and more attention, brought to the fore. This is obviously very good and a step forward.