![]() The debate was moderated by Jeremy Paxman and is available through the Intelligence Squared website or YouTube channel. To discuss the question of how Napoleon should be remembered by history, the debating organisation Intelligence Squared hosted Roberts and the eminent freelance historian Adam Zamoyski to square off against one another in 2014. In fact, Roberts’s admiration for Napoleon is an unusual position for a staunch British conservative to take. Some see him as a bloodthirsty tyrant and usurper, others as an authoritarian but essentially benign dictator who carried on, consolidated and spread many of the ideals of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. This is, of course, a controversial position – Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most divisive figures in history. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2014, the historian Andrew Roberts published Napoleon the Great, a biography of the Emperor of the French which argued forcefully that he deserves the appellation Roberts gives him in the book’s title. ![]()
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