Was napolean the protector of french revolution.justify your answer?
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Bonaparte was optimistic about bringing French revolutionary politics to Corsica. We see him there handing out cockades, and he helped found a political club. As mentioned in the first article in this series, the Bonapartes worked as a family, so he supported his older brother Joseph for political office. His family bought nationalized church lands. By 1792, Napoleon got himself elected as the lieutenant colonel of the National Guard.
But there was a problem. Napoleon and the Bonaparte family clashed with Pasquale Paoli, the leading Corsican politician. Paoli had led independent Corsica back in the day, from 1755 to 1769. Now he had returned from exile and won back his old power and prestige on the island, but he didn’t get along with the Bonapartes. They were more tightly allied with the pro-French factions, and Paoli increasingly resented and mistrusted France. The politics were extremely messy, but a couple of points stand out.