Change Is Inevitable

Everything of the world is given to changes. Every cause and effect is a transaction, which can only be done with lot of energy changing hands. Such release of energy makes action imperative. Napoleon in those unsettled times when the fledgling Republic faced enemies all around, proved his skills during the seige of Toulon. Subsequently in his meteoric rise he had no qualms of sacrificing so many of his divisions at the battlefield to prove his genius and scoring over their enemies. In their defeats French citizens gloated and they looked to the little corporal as a savior. In each victory he made France sit up and notice him. He showed he was worthy to be compared with Alexander or Caesar. Each victory dragged him farther and farther made possible by so much energy he could mop up. Events did neither go away nor stop; he could not have stopped with Austrelitz or Jena. It was irresistible to ride the crest of the wave of these memorable victories. He had a grateful nation in his pocket. But the retreat from Moscow and Waterloo changed all that. In his fall the nation saw in him more sinned against than a sinner. His funeral in 1840 was a great event and the whole nation mourned in the passing of an era. But change is inevitable as with every transaction in energy. France had reverted from an empire to a Republic. By 1898 in the Chamber there was not a single deputy which belonged to the Bonapartist. From 100 deputies to none. Bonapartism was dead within 27 years after his death.
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