Blog category: Napoleonic code
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What did Napoleon think of women?
March 8, 2019
Although Napoleon Bonaparte respected his mother and put two of his sisters in charge of small territories, he believed that women were generally inferior to men. In Napoleon’s view, women were destined to play a domestic role, rather than a public one.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte