Question

what were the reason for the fall of Napoleon

Answer 1

The fundamental principle on which his entire Imperial system was based on; conquest, and a sort of naive mixture of intimidation and imposition. If ever history had a most illegitimate empire, it would be Napoleon’s. Europe could never tolerate and accept the Corsican usurper’s position among the traditional head of states. Even Princess Marie-Louise, the Emperor’s second wife, took to mutilating a doll she named Napoleon on a regular basis during her teenage years.

Of course, the last nation left to face Napoleon was Russia. Since the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, all of Europe was silently stifled under the rule of Napoleon, and Britain realistically posed an existential threat. Had the Emperor been more patient, he would have seen the success of his Continental Blockade and the slow destruction of Britain. Russia began coercing Napoleon for war in 1810, as the Tsar could never forget his conservative roots, owing much greater allegiance to the Habsburgs and the Hohenzollerns than to the Bonapartes. He secretly led a sort of “double game” against Napoleon, who seemed to be the dupe of a purely circumstantial friendship.

Napoleon’s ego, will for war, his profound impatience spurred by years of absolute and totalitarian rule. And during the years leading to the invasion of 1812, his health, both physical and mental, began a slow atrophy. A French painter who dared to sneak into the palace to catch a glimpse of the Emperor was disappointed, expecting a sort of God, but only “a fat man”. In times of occasional lucidity, Napoleon himself remarked “the bow is overstretched”. The Empire was too difficult to manage, too stifling and restrictive, and Napoleon seemed to be the only Bonaparte competent enough for rule. It was simply unfeasible.

Napoleon led his army to disaster in the fields of Russia. In 1813, the Allies offered Napoleon many opportunities for him to retain his throne, though at the expense of his empire. Of course, Napoleon refused them all, pointing out that thousands of French soldiers died for it.

In short, the Napoleonic empire was too great, too grandiose, and too badly timed. In Napoleon’s words, “Such work as mine is not done twice in a century”.

Answer 2

French people do not accepted that any king rule in france