Question # 2 - Why would Napoleon be a hero to the people of France and a villian to the other people of Europe?
Source # 1 - Map of Napoleon's Empire
Source # 2 - Video about Napoleon's rule of France.
Source # 3 - Video about Napoleon's wars of conquests across Europe.
Source # 4 - Video about Napoleon's downfall.
Source # 5 - Napoleon in the Alps by David (1801)
Source # 6 - Napoleon's Coronation as Emperor - David (1806)
Source # 7 - Third of May, 1808, Goya (1814)
Source # 8 - Mirand's Graphic of Napoleon's Invasion of Russia (1862)
Video explaining Mirand's Graphic:
Source # 9 - Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) - From "Keeping Score" at pbs.org:
"By late 1803, Beethoven had sketched out his new epic symphony, the Eroica. It was inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution and dedicated to its hero, who then seemed to be the great liberator of the people: Napoleon.
Beethoven thought of himself as a free spirit, and he admired the principles of freedom and equality embodied by the French Revolution. He thought he recognized in Napoleon a hero of the people and a champion of freedom, which was why he intended to dedicate a huge new symphony to him.
But when Beethoven heard the news in late 1804 that Napoleon had crowned himself Emperor of France, he was disgusted. “He’s just a rascal like all the others,” he exclaimed.
Beethoven violently erased Napoleon’s name from his manuscript—so forcefully, in fact, that he erased his way right through the paper, leaving holes in the title page.
So this revolutionary piece of music that was originally to be The Bonaparte Symphony became simply Eroica—the heroic."
Listen to it here:
Source # 10 - 1812 Overture (Finale) by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
Source # 11 - Trafalgar Square in London - the statue in the center is of Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson who died defeating the French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Source # 12 - Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Source # 13 - Print by Thomas Rowlandson of Napoleon looking at Death at the Battle of Leipzig or Battle of Nations
