RE: France objects to "Waterloo" coin?
June 10, 2015 at 3:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2015 at 4:05 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 10, 2015 at 12:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 12:08 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is celebrating a French defeat. That is why they don't like it.
So? The French would prefer to stay under the rule of a dictator? That makes no fucking sense considering they were thrilled the Allies freed them from Nazi Germany. I cant wrap my head around that logic. Napoleon was no hero. He was an opportunist. If I were French I would celebrate his defeat.
oh, please, if the French were like you there would be no Jules Verne.
Napoleon was an opportunist, which is precisely why he could be a hero. Hero is nothing but the opportunist who seized the opportunity in a way the observer approved of. Napoleon was far more progressive, and less dictatorial than any the continental monarchs whose hides were saved by Waterloo. To make the French empire in a world of European monarchs was type of opportunity seizure I approve of.
