France torn over Napoleon celebrations as minister labels him ‘world’s worst misogynist’
The country remains locked in arguments over how, if at all, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of their former leader's death
The French have remained split over his legacy
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Military mastermind who gave France its grandeur and civil code or brutal despot and one of world’s "worst misogynists” who reinstated slavery in the land of human rights and fatally overplayed his hand at Waterloo?
The jury is still out on Napoleon Bonaparte as France remains locked in fraught argument over how, if at all, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death.