The French Revolution was a time of great change that had a lasting effect on all of Europe for many years to come. Through the Enlightenment, a new school of thought had emerged that is best summarized in the Declaration of the Rights of Man by the National Assembly during the French Revolution. Greatly influenced by such ideas was a young, brilliant military officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. Under his regime, France entered a time of "Enlightened Despotism", or absolutist rule by one ruler who was brilliant, wise, and cared about the wellbeing of his subjects. Often called the greatest of the Enlightened Despots, Napoleon helped heal France and lead them out of the radical end of the French Revolution through his lasting domestic reforms and policies that were extremely advanced and liberal for the early nineteenth century.
As an Enlightened Despot, Napoleon’s primary focus was to make France a powerful state. His greatest reform was the first complete codification of French......
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