I think the French rev was a mistake in many ways and it, along with the partitions of Poland aroudn the same time lead to WWI and WWII and the holocaust.
Also, Napoleon was a slimebag to the Poles - promising but never delivering and ready to sell them out at the first chance.
However, he was a great general, no doubt about that and did give an example of how you can marshal your resources well
I just read a biographical novel on John Adams. He apparently was a strong component of our tripartite form of government— Executive (President), Legislative (Congress), and Judiciary (Supreme Court). He felt their strengths should be balanced to prevent one from having total power. He had strong criticisms of the government being organized as an outgrowth of the French Revolution and thought it would fail. It did end up in Napoleon’s dictatorship, and many years of poor governance.