As we all know, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic, was one of the great leaders of the French Republic who led the French Republic to victory after victory and established republican governments all over Europe. But what many don't know is that Napoleon Bonaparte considered making himself Emperor in the early 1800s, so, what if he did make himself Emperor of France and proclaimed a French Empire? Would he be as successful as he was historically? Or would he have been overthrown?