Napolean a child
... Napoleon Bonaparte was this child of the enlightenment.”1 His enlightened ideas were displayed in both his attitudes and policies, he was able to use religion as a tool to accomplish his political ideas and goals, and he was also a literal “child” of the Enlightenment. ... The great Emperor’s ability to use religion as a tool to accomplish his political ideas and goals really expressed him as being a “child of the Enlightenment. ... The last reason Napoleon Bonaparte was a “child of the Enlightenment” is because he theoretically and literally was a “child” during that time period. Standing at a mere 5’ 3” tall, some would almost mistake him as a child for that is around the size of a youth.