France objects to "Waterloo" coin?

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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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You could say he was the return of law without rolling back too much of the achievements of the French revolution.

You also have to look at it from the perspective of ordinary citizens at that time. In the last throes of the Bourbon reign before 1789, Paris was considered the most filthy city in Europe. One of the Napoleonic achievements was modernising the city.

To say nothing of how much Napoleonic progressive reforms in law and civil administration set the pace for modern Europe and continues to benefit France and European mainland in general long after the monarchies that ganged up on Napoleon had mostly gone extinct.