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...Napoleon created his own golden legend, his opponents had created the black legend of Napoleon." Two socialist-minded French historians, ex-Naval Officer Louis de Villefosse and his wife Janine Bouissonouse, attack Napoleon ferociously in a recently published book, L'Opposition à Napoléon. In j'accusé tones, they condemn Napoleon for "reestablishing slavery in the [French] colonies and the black slave trade. We could go as far as to charge him with racism and fascism. No, decidedly, it is not respect for law that he taught Europe, but the religion of force. He was fundamentally...
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