Top People in Values
Top Books in Values
Individuals who have had a major impact on the History of Values including our picks for the Top 100
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Napoleon I
1769 – 1821
French

General, emperor. A cynic, master of the cool appraisal of human nature, he ultimately fell victim to his own self-glorification.

Contemporaries
1717–1783Jean d'Alembert
1694–1778Voltaire
1802–1898Charles Villiers
1727–1781Anne-Robert-Jacquees Turgot
1805–1859Alexis de Tocqueville
1767–1820Jean Tallien
1783–1842Stendhal
1804–1876George Sand
1804–1869Charles Sainte-Beuve
1740–1814Marquis de Sade
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1758–1794Maximilien Robespierre
1777–1849Julie Récamier
1809–1865Pierre Proudhon
1732–1804Jacques Necker
1743–1793Jean Marat
1801–1881Paul Littré
1782–1854Felicité Lamennais
1790–1869Alphonse Lamartine
1802–1885Victor Hugo
1715–1771Claude-Adrien Helvétius
1816–1882Joseph Gobineau
1772–1837Charles Fourier
1821–1880Gustave Flaubert
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1809–1871Charles Delescluze
1808–1879Honoré Daumier
1759–1794Georges Danton
1792–1867Victor Cousin
1768–1793Charlotte Corday
1715–1780Étienne Condillac
1743–1794Marie Condorcet
1798–1857Auguste Comte
1756–1794Jean Baptiste Carrier
1788–1856Étienne Cabet
1707–1788Georges-Louis Buffon
1754–1793Jacques Pierre Brissot
1809–1852Louis Braille
1802–1887Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
1805–1881Auguste Blanqui
1811–1882Louis Blanc
1753–1809Jean Pierre Blanchard
1771–1802Xavier Bichat
1794–1880Sabin Berthelot
1732–1799Pierre Beaumarchais
1821–1867Charles Baudelaire
1799–1850Honoré de Balzac
1760–1797François-Noël Babeuf
1727–1806Michel Adanson