“by the legends that his court propagated after his death”

Saint Helena was a great court indeed ! that that the Brits found necessary to isolate him from the rest of the world, and particularly from the French, where they imposed him every day vexations, and poisned his food, oh they didn’t want that he died quickly, but that that takes a long time, instead of judging him in a fair trial.

But wasn’t the legend of the bad Napoleon written by his geolers too.

Napoleon never murdered his population like the exemples that you gave above, he was victim of his successful power that implied isolement, and thus he lost the sense of trivial realities. But isn’t it what happens to any politician that holds power for a long time, they forget what their electors think and live