Which in itself was an attempt to restore the old imperial tradition of Rome.

And there were allies aplenty, as thanks to the conquest of the French Republic and Napoleon, by the time Napoleon invaded Russia in 1812, only half his invasion force was made up of Frenchmen. The rest were Germans, Italians, Poles, Dutch, and other nationalities of the Napoleonic Empire and its puppets.
Great Power Rivalry in Antiquity and the Early Modern Period
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Anton Krutikov
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Which in itself was an attempt to restore the old imperial tradition of Rome. The trap was that France under Napoleon followed an illusory past and its former glory, forgetting the lessons of ancient history.
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