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* The Rosetta Stone's discovery, allowing for Egyptian hieroglyphics to be read.
* Jewish emancipation
* He singlehandedly doubled the size of [[the United States]]
* His campaigns are still studied by military students
* His efforts, however, have not overcome [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]. He was after all, somewhat Italian (Corsica became French only within a few years of his birth).
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Napoleon was exceptionally attractive to women due to his dark, brooding good looks (much more so in his younger days than later on) and his magnetic personality, and his romantic life combines elements of [[The Casanova]], [[Chivalrous Pervert]] and [[Ladykiller in Love]]. He was married twice, to Josephine de Beauharnais, the great love of his life, and to the Austrian Archduchess Marie-Louise. He had at least half-a-dozen serious extramarital or premarital affairs and numerous shorter liaisons, and fathered at least two children, both sons (one with Marie-Louise and another with one of his favorite mistresses, the Polish noblewoman Marie Walewska).
Also has a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille-feuille pastry] named after him.
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** Technically, he was a mixed case of this for the French. Ethnically, he was technically more Italian than French, but the French generally accept him as one of their own and still admire many of his accomplishments. At the same time, most of the same are still willing to admit his legacy is still a bit checkered, even if in general they still consider him a French icon.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Despite otherwise supporting the end of serfdom and slavery, when Haiti threw off slavery and declared independence, he tried (and failed) to undo that.
* [[Irony]]:
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: Famously disparaged what was then the more modern guns and the steam engine, believing both to be fads at best. He didn't live to see the second take off.
* [[Just the First Citizen]]: A role he played up until crowning himself Emperor. Even after that he was a major proponent of liberal reforms, making his monarchy based on legal system that rewarded merit and put all parties under an equal system of law that abolished feudal distinctions.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]: Downplayed regarding the Louisiana Purchase. On the surface, he made the offer to sell the entire territory (the United States initially only offering to buy the port city of New Orleans) to fund his conflict with Britain, although it is rumored he was also counting on the United States becoming an additional threat to Britain, something he certainly would benefit from.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Went out of his way to do this for Jewish people, pointing out anyone could [[Kick the Dog|oppress them]], but it took a better person to assimilate them.
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: He needed the Catholic Church to at least not antagonize him, so he mended fences with them enough to avoid it as leader of France. He still made sure he held the whip hand, but was determined to make sure the Catholic lobby would not undermine his control of France.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: He survived the entire French Revolution thanks to this. He quickly switched allegiance to whomever was in the best position to assure his advancement but always kept himself just distant enough to jump ship before they became a liability. At the same time, he built up his own allies and power base so if push came to shove, he'd be in a position to take power for himself. Even after he gained power he was cautious, making sure to placate whichever factions he had to while still eliminating rivals via reforms.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: One thing he specifically researched was how to carry food products for his military campaigns. While the invention of canned food was intended originally just for that, it also formed a vital basis in modern day preservation technique.
* [[The Napoleon]]: As explained above, he was actually not THAT short, but the French term for "little" (used as a tear of endearment) combined with Anglocentric confusion gave the trope it's codification.
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* [[The Spymaster]]: A little known fact about him is he was not shy in using cryptographic methods to gather information and conceal details of his military campaigns.
* [[Trope Codifier]]: His military tactics set the standard for warfare until the end of [[American Civil War]].
* [[Weaksauce Weakness]]: Napoleon was a good leader of armies, but his naval experience was abysmal. Despite trying to cut off British navies at the ankles, he never had much luck pulling it off, and Admiral Nelson handed him a humiliating defeat at the Battle of Trafalgar. Even though Nelson died soon after, Napoleon still never got any better at naval warfare.
* [[What an Idiot!]]: His attempt to invade the heartland of Russia was counseled against as a fool's errand. [[It Got Worse|And it proved even worse than that.]]
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: The Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo and still admitted he was a formidable foe.
* [[Urban Legends]]: Napoleon was accused of having shot the nose off the Egyptian Sphinx. It was actually gone centuries before Napoleon ever showed up in Egypt.
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* Went up against {{spoiler|and lost to}} [[George Washington]] during season 3 of ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]''.
* Napoleon's numerous romances were the subject of the aforementioned 1974 British TV miniseries ''Napoleon and Love''. His relationship with Josephine was chronicled in the 1987 US miniseries ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story]]'', starring Armand Assante and Jacqueline Bisset as the titular lovers.
* Appeared in ''[[Bewitched]]'' after Samantha's uncle attempts to use magic to make a Napolean pastry, [[Epic Fail|and botches it.]]
== [[Music]] ==
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* Napoleon, what's left of him, cheers [[Rocko's Modern Life|Rocko]] on when he decides to meet the girl of his dreams at the top of the Eiffel tower.
* His clone in ''[[Clone High]]'' is a short and short-tempered shopkeeper who makes Abe and Gandhi's Christmas holidays a living hell. "MANGEZ LA VERRE!!!" <ref>"Eat the glass!"</ref>
* In the five-part ''[[G.I. Joe|G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero]]'' story "Arise, Serpentor Arise!" he was one of many historical figures whose DNA was spliced to create Serpentor.
* Featured in ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' where he fought [[Joe Pesci]] - Boneparte won.
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