More seriously, in the modern world he doesn't fit anyone's agenda. Military glory for its own sake is out of fashion, and without that, what's left? The Code was a plus, but someone else would probably have done it before long. Ditto the Concordat. His career was spectacular, but as with Pyrrhus, Richard I, Edward III, Henry V and Charles XII, there wasn't a lot to show for it in the end. His most important actions were
1) Keeping France at war long enough for her to lose Belgium and the Rhineland, never to be regained.
2) Restoring Monarchy in France, so that all the Allies had to do was change the dynasty.
3) Bringing back slavery in the French overseas Empire, after the Republic had abolished it.
4) Getting the Second British Empire off to a flying start, by tying up France (GB's main colonial rival) in fruitless European campaigns, while Britain went around collecting up the whole world (or as much of it as she wanted) at minimal cost. To put the tin lid on it, in the course of his wars he also destroyed the power of Britain's lesser rivals, Spain and the Netherlands, and kept Russia distracted.
For my money, his most positive achievement was unintended - he taught the French, and in particular the French Republicans, to be fearful of war. They learned that, while defeat would lead to the Republic being destroyed from without, victory would be just as fatal, throwing up ambitious generals to destroy it from within. The Second and especially Third Republics remembered, and kept France out of war till 1914, even then being very careful to let the Germans fire the first shot. The other powers seem to have sensed the change, since neither of these later republics aroused a fraction of the alarm the first one did.
1) Keeping France at war long enough for her to lose Belgium and the Rhineland, never to be regained.
2) Restoring Monarchy in France, so that all the Allies had to do was change the dynasty.
3) Bringing back slavery in the French overseas Empire, after the Republic had abolished it.
4) Getting the Second British Empire off to a flying start, by tying up France (GB's main colonial rival) in fruitless European campaigns, while Britain went around collecting up the whole world (or as much of it as she wanted) at minimal cost. To put the tin lid on it, in the course of his wars he also destroyed the power of Britain's lesser rivals, Spain and the Netherlands, and kept Russia distracted.
For my money, his most positive achievement was unintended - he taught the French, and in particular the French Republicans, to be fearful of war. They learned that, while defeat would lead to the Republic being destroyed from without, victory would be just as fatal, throwing up ambitious generals to destroy it from within. The Second and especially Third Republics remembered, and kept France out of war till 1914, even then being very careful to let the Germans fire the first shot. The other powers seem to have sensed the change, since neither of these later republics aroused a fraction of the alarm the first one did.
