Napoleon: Hero or Villian
Using the excerpt below and your knowledge of European History, answer all parts (ABC) that follow. Apply the ACE method to write your response in 23 lines or less.
Thus the famous young warrior [Napoleon] had clutched at power and was not soon to let it slip….He was to etch the impress of his amazing personality with deep, precise bold strokes upon the institutions and the life of France. He was, in reality, a flinty young despot with a pronounced taste for military glory. “I love power,” he said later, “as a musician loves his violin. I love it as an artist.” He was now in a position to indulge his taste.
Charles Downer Hazen, Professor of History at Columbia University, Modern European History, 1917
Question 1
Provide ONE piece of evidence that supports Hazen’s contention in the passage.
Question 2
Provide ONE piece of evidence that undermines Hazen’s contention in the passage.
Question 3
Provide a SECOND piece of evidence that undermines Hazen’s contention in the passage.
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