Napoleon Bonaparte is a corrupt leader A leader is not determined by what he does but by how he does it. Napoleon was undoubtedly a great leader, but was he corrupt? He was not just a leader for the French, but a hero. He had the essence of being able to inspire others and undertake not very pleasant tasks. Napoleon believed that it was with balls that men were led. Napoleon believed that wealth often reflected selfishness and, in its absence, other qualifications. A rich man is often lazy and without merit. There is no basis for a healthy social order. Napoleon was the leader of this revolution for the monarch, then he was the leader of his country. Napoleon supported the revolution and then when it was over he became the emperor, which was exactly what they had just gotten rid of but it seemed like that. It doesn't matter, assuming people were fans of it. To most people he seemed neither good nor violent. Napoleon's involvement in suppressing the Vendemiaire revolt of 1795 in Paris, which brought him to national attention. Napoleon was well known for his temper, some comparing him to an exploding volcano. He was undoubtedly a great military leader, but he was not a good leader of France. He tried to break out of other countries and take control of them, of course at that time he was apparently fine, and he had the best army in the world, but he started so many wars with the countries around him. He seized power illegally and crowned himself emperor. He didn't really care what others thought of him. All the wars he got into cost France a lot of money. He only thought about himself. He didn't do anything for the people. It brought back a lot of the things that the revolution was trying to get rid of, but when they brought Napoleon into the middle of the paper it was a cause of great angst. His successes in war led him to rely on war as a political tool and to be insensitive to its human cost. D'Enghien's execution was criminal, the Pope's imprisonment immoral, and Napoleon's quest for total domination a reflection of his warped psyche. Lord Acton's adage "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" was permanently identified with Bonaparte as its prime example of truthfulness. In essence, Napoleon was a great leader of the army but he was not a great leader for his people. . He ruined the whole revolution. He crowned himself emperor after overthrowing their monarch. It was bad for the people, but they had no choice because he had just crowned himself emperor. If people had a choice, which they later realized, they shouldn't have driven it.