] So, for him, it's the personal qualities of Napoleon himself, Julie?

The personal qualities only in so far as he was a great general. This is the same person who can admire Hannibal, Ceasar etc, soley for their military abilities, and who when we saw Gladiator in the cinema shouted out loudly every time he spotted an historical inacurracy( he did this quite often) , and despised the Russell Crowe character for being"one dimensional and too nice".