Abolished feudalism, supported religious liberty, established the Code Napoleon, promoting jury trials etc. He was dictatorial but in my view governed enormously more fairly than the Jacobin mob that took over France after the revolution and instituted the Terror.

I'm not sure if [citation needed] is appropriate. This is kind of rudimentary history. It's a cute thing we do on HN but if we did this every post would be a Wikipedia article in itself

I'm presuming that saying "a fig for the nation" wouldn't have necessarily sent you to the guillotine under Napoleon, as compared to the Jacobins shortly before him.