Napoleon once argued that civil and religious institutions are more powerful than the sword. This statement encapsulates a subtlety of political rule in Napoleon, but one that is not entirely unprecedented. In Nietzsche’s view, Napoleon is not a dictator but a tyrant who has mastered private morality. Nietzsche associates Napoleon as a figure of conspiracy like Julius Caesar, and both figures came to power through coup d’état. Napoleon is a master of the herd in Nietzsche’s view, he is a figure that ushered in a political solution to the problem of the masses…