Napoleon symbolized the junction of spectacle-sovereignty and permanent discipline

Evidence

The importance, in historical mythology, of the Napoleonic character probably derives from the fact that it is at the point of junction of the monarchical, ritual exercise of sovereignty and the hierarchical, permanent exercise of indefinite discipline. He is the individual who looms over everything with a single gaze which no detail, however minute, can escape — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 341

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘single gaze which no detail escapes’ parallels Big Brother as the invisible singular surveilling eye. — connects to: Napoleon’s empire fused the Carolingian and Roman revival dreams — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 225