Yes. Napoleon, like most french people of his time, feared or hated or despized the republican regime, or at least thought it was unfit for a big country.
And Napoleon was a monarchist who adhered to the principles of the french revolution and who wanted a strong and efficient government. And most of all, he was a soldier who wanted order.
There is an anecdote about young Napoleon being in Paris during the revolutionary mess. Witnessing Louis XVI letting himself be humiliated by the revolutionary mob, Napoleon is said to have told about Louis XVI "che gran coglione", which means, "what a dickhead !".
Napoleon and quite many people thought that it was because Louis XVI was too kind and too weak a person that the revolutionary events turned into such a mess and a civil war. They thought that this turmoil could have been avoided if the king had had the guts to command that order be maintained, even at the cost of a shooting against the mob.
That's precisely what general Napoleon Bonaparte did in Paris in 1795 at the service of a completely discredited and corrupt regime.