Brian, while it's certainly true that Napoleon was a dictator, he was a comparatively enlightened and easy-going one. The French likely don't want to commemorate Waterloo because they really liked Napoleon (and still do). They were far better off under him than they were under either the Bourbons or the savages of the revolution like Robespierre.
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