There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

Yes, Yes, Kind of, though obviously the Conspiracy of Equals would have been better, Napoleon was unequivocally the best side in the wars of the Coalitions.

Yes, no and no. Glad to help.

You had a general protest turning into to a peasant/worker rising.

Then they got couped and stabbed by the rising merchant caste.

It was in turn couped over and over with the blood of the masses as grease.

In short a revolution betrayed that ends in (proto)fascism.

So yes. No and no

1 - obv yes 2- meh 3- no

When Napoleon dismantles feudalism in Europe I

When he tries to reinstate slavery in Haiti I

Yes, yes but it was excessive and needed more oversight, mixed opinion. Napoleon as emperor was still vastly more progressive of a system than what any monarch of Europe was overseeing. But he was a man of contradictions with an administration of contradictions. He rolled back many wins of the revolution, but protected and spread many of its other core principles to the end. I think those trying to depose him from the left were absolutely correct, and those defending his reign from the reactionary powers of the coalition also had legitimate progressive reasons to do so. I don’t like Napoleon though, his greed for power contributed to destabilizing and neutering the revolution.