>>91083
> courtesy to popular belief, he wasn’t a mason
yes he wasnt but however that doesnt redeem him much from his fall and yet another lecture that you cannot coexist with people that hate you (like that one sentence where he didnt wanted to understand his servant in saint helena that jewish conspiracy undermined him and still coped by military mistakes which were made) as he was giving concessions to them (and sending his generals to lodges to get more popular with them) because of his fatal mistake in internal politics to merge old with new and to be liked by everyone.

from freemasonry ideology organization and politics 1944 by dieter schwartz page 21
>In his attempts to make the lodges work for him, Napoleon
made the mistake of failing to take international Freemasonry
into account in his calculations. Thus, a determined enemy
•rose against him in the English branch of Freemasonry, an
enemy which furthermore received support from the Freema¬
sons of all countries oppressed by the Corsican