Bonapartism

/ ˈbəʊnəpɑːˌtɪzəm /

noun

1. a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites

2. (esp in France) support for the government or dynasty of Napoleon Bonaparte

Other Word Forms

• Bonapartist noun

Example Sentences

Mr. Duhamel, the political commentator, identified Macronism as “a civil and democratic Bonapartism, where everything goes up to the leader, and there is a quest for disruption and reform, through the whip.”

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Zemmour’s detractors often link him to the Rassemblement National — formerly the National Front — but his true allegiance is to Bonapartism.

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He is, perhaps above all, a significant figure owing to the fidelity of his republicanism: from a background that in most places and circumstances would have led, in crisis, toward some form of Bonapartism, he remained a faithful believer in the norms of democracy, in oscillating governments and principled resignation.

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In Le Monde, the comparatively sober political philosopher Philippe Raynaud argued that, for all Macron’s “soft Bonapartism,” the Affaire Benalla is hardly a French Watergate, as the far left had been insisting.

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Others used the terms “Bonapartism” or “Caesarism”.

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