Didn’t Napoleon make a comment after his downfall they wanted him to be another George Washington.
Napoleon admired Washington. And perhaps Napoleon behaved much like a Washington during the days of the French Republic. So I guess folks could have seen him as another Washington.
The key difference between the two men was, of course, ambition. Napoleon was not content with just Paris. He had to have Madrid, Rome, Berlin, and Moscow as well. To my way of thinking, that makes him more like Hitler than like Washington.