(not the person you respond to) I get your feeling, but that's a mistake to placate it on that painting. Napoleon probably abolished more monarchies than anyon

(not the person you respond to) I get your feeling, but that's a mistake to placate it on that painting. Napoleon probably abolished more monarchies than anyone else in Europe. The moment it captures is when Napoleon (who took power, he was not born into it) broke the supremacy of the church over European leaders. A definite moment for secularism. It does mimic the crowning ceremony of kings, but it actually breaks the supremacy of the church.