Challenge: Napoleonic Nostalgia Outside France

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to have widespread nostalgia for Napoleon's rule even after his fall among the common people of Europe outside of France. Have him revered for bringing freedom from serfdom, emancipating the Jews, ending internal tolls, that sort of thing.

I remember one "alternative character interpretation of the Lord of the Rings" describing Middle Earth's peasants secretly revering Sauron and hiding this from the secret police working for the King of Gondor.

(They were claiming Sauron's race-blind proto-industrial regime was progressive and the West were a bunch of white reactionary feudalists.)

Think something like that. Bonus points if Bonapartism becomes an insurgent ideology against the restored monarchies rather than a dynastic loyalty.
 
Perhaps have him create a larger Unified Kingdom and generally let it do it's own thing while being a close ally?

Be (temporarily) more successful in restoring a Polish state?

Announce the end of Serfdom in the parts of Russia he managed to occupy?

Maybe have him support the various Spanish AMerican Independence movements, or atleast vocally approve of them?
 
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Perhaps an 1848-like situation is avoided, at least in the German states, and without the co-opting of the liberal goals by the conservative order the commoners become more and more radicalized. By the time the big revolt finally comes (1860ish?), Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine is looked back on fondly (with plenty of romanticized historical revisionism) as the the first pan-German state (not dominated by Austria (or Prussia)).
 
You know, if Napoleon saw to it that his regime (including his various vassal kingdoms and duchies and whatnot he delegated to his relatives and generals) did mean real progress for a lot of commoners, perhaps his empire would never have fallen in his natural lifetime?

I rather thought that they actually did do some of that. Maybe too much--too disruptive, people not ready, etc. Or too little.

But I do have the impression that he was rather admired, just not by the ruling classes of Britain. Who had a lot of sway over what got written and published!
 
should new orleans remain predominantly french, even in language, and the USA remember that napoleon was their ally (war of 1812 was under the table coordinated IIRC with the french because of britain's war with france). i suppose if said bonds were made more public
 
Perhaps have him create a larger Unified Kingdom and generally let it do it's own thing while being a close ally?

What's the Unified Kingdom?

If you're referring to some Napoleonic version of the UK, if something like that is created, that likely means Napoleon will be victorious, not that he will be ultimately defeated but the peasants and bourgeosie will remember him fondly in their hearts while being trampled beneath the spurs of reactionary feudal fiends.
 
should new orleans remain predominantly french, even in language, and the USA remember that napoleon was their ally (war of 1812 was under the table coordinated IIRC with the french because of britain's war with france). i suppose if said bonds were made more public

The only time I've heard the coordination claim is at the exhibit of captured American battle flags from the War of 1812 at Cardiff Castle and I figured that was for the consumption of (American) tourists--blame Napoleon!
 
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