After the death of Louis XVI in 1793, a river of blood flowed in the streets of France. The Terror, led by Maximilien Robespierre, guillotined many people who were labeled “counter-revolutionaries,” no matter how far-fetched the evidence. The French people yearned for a new form of government because “no one dared to pronounce the word “republic” so deeply that the Terror had sullied the name” (Remusat 491). In other words, they needed a body capable of putting an end to the chaos and in 1799, through a coup d'état, it would be Napoleon Bonaparte who brought order to the French government. In 1804, he crowned himself emperor and, through his Napoleonic Code, provided post-revolutionary France with "its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family and individual rights" (history.com) . This code was based on the three principles of the French Revolution: equality, liberty and fraternity. It granted all male citizens equal rights and religious freedoms, rules completely different from those of the Ancien Régime and similar to the ideas of the French Revolution. Thus, it can be said that from 1804 to 1815, Bonaparte used his political and military intelligence to maintain order and preserve the reforms and principles adopted during the French Revolution. Others will say that Napoleon Bonaparte was, in fact, a destroyer of the Revolution. . They disagree that he was a conservative of the Revolution because they believe that although most of Bonaparte's actions were based on the principles of the French Revolution, his arrogant way of thinking challenges them. For example, Joseph Fouché describes in his memoirs how Bonaparte set up a secret police. He was appointed minister of this secret police in middle of paper......History and theory. New York: The Sons of Charles Scribner, 1939. Print. • Fouché, Joseph. Memoirs: Napoleon's Secret Police. London: Gibbings et, 1894. 188-91. Print.• Grossman, Ira. “Napoleon the reader: the early years”. The Napoleon series. Internet. November 13, 2011. .• "Napoleon Code approved in France - History.com This day in history - 03/21/1804." History.com - History Made Every Day - American and World History. Internet. November 13, 2011. • Robinson, James Harvey., ed. Readings on European history. Flight. 2. Boston: Ginn &, 1904. Print.• Rogers, Percy M. Aspects of Western Civilization. Eagle Wood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. Print.• Smith, Bonnie G. Changing Lives: Women in European History Since 1700. DC Health and, 1989. Print..