revolution (what would become the country’s national motto)—“Liberté, egalité, fraternité”—and how it could be reinterpreted and wielded to consolidate his own power. It was ultimately under that banner that Napoleon did the opposite: He restricted freedom, dismissed fraternity—a philosophy based in unity and solidarity—and granted equality only to French men, not women, while reintroducing colonial slavery in an effort to reconstruct a French empire. “So he talked about how you build a system…where you can kind of control the people,” Altman reflected. “I was like, ‘Wow. I’m glad he does not
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