Napoleon: Military genius or sexist, slaving autocrat?

Should Bonaparte's sexist belief that a wife must always obey her husband be buried in the past? - AFP

The jury is still out on Napoleon Bonaparte. He modernised France and won some of the most famous battles in history, but he also enshrined the subordination of women into law and re-established slavery.

Ahead of Wednesday's bicentenary of his death in exile on the remote island of St. Helena, we ask if the man who dominated Europe and declared himself an emperor was a hero or villain...