In my opinion Napoleon was a hero and not a tyrant because of the many modern systems and ideas that are still used today that were instituted by him. Firstly before Napoleon had come into power france had no standard law system, the punishment for lets say theft would vary from province to province and how powerful the person you stole from was. After napoleon had instituted the napoleonic code, france's first standard law system the punishment would not vary and you would get punished more severely simple because the person you stole from was influential. In Fact the napoleonic code is still used by dozens of nations around the world. Things the napoleonic covered where freedom of religion, it specified government jobs were to be given on
