During the 19th century, Britain, Germany, and Russia saw massive expansions of their populations, often between double and triple, but France's population grew only incrementally, say from 30 million to 40 million. At the start of the century, France had three times the population of Prussia, but on the eve of WWI, Germany had twice the population, and the annual classes available for conscription were approaching three times the size.
Is there any reason to believe a Napoleon who satisfies himself with crushing the Fourth Coalition without the Continental System, and then rests on his laurels, intermarrying with the other royal houses of Europe etc and not getting hundreds of thousands more Frenchmen killed would have any effect on this trend?
Is there any reason to believe a Napoleon who satisfies himself with crushing the Fourth Coalition without the Continental System, and then rests on his laurels, intermarrying with the other royal houses of Europe etc and not getting hundreds of thousands more Frenchmen killed would have any effect on this trend?