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Ultimately Napoleon was like…well….a Napoleon.
If I was to pick one, I’d say Cromwell. He probably saw himself as an Alexander or a Caesar.
As to the ‘great reformer’ tag, it’s worth noting the the Revolution did not just lop off the heads of a king and noble or two. It completely dislocated society and it’s institutions. The church, the judicial system, even the calendar, was swept away. Pragmatically the revolution had at worst resulted in dysfunction. At best a clean slate. Any regime that followed it would have to be reformers, there was no other direction to go. That is why many of the ‘Napoleonic’ reforms were already under way under the Directorate. The Napoleonic legend machine vacuums them up anyway.