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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.
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