Coincidence is just an episode in the historical development.
The development of human society is always dominated by the natural laws of its own development. Historical development is inevitable, and coincidence is accidental.
For example, the development of productive forces determines the relations of production, and the economic base determines the superstructure. This is a huge historical law. Could explain the Napoleonic Empire.
Many people think that Napoleon changed French history. In fact, this is not correct.
Napoleon's coming to power and stepping down is governed by objective historical laws.
The rapid development of French capitalist economy decided the outbreak of bourgeois revolution. When the bourgeois dictatorship was established, the development level of French capitalist economy was not as strong as that of China and even the whole European feudal economy. From the perspective of France itself, the domestic bourgeoisie cannot independently control the French regime, but can only pray for the emergence of power politics, maintain the political situation and safeguard the achievements of the Great Revolution. Napoleon catered to this historical development trend, came to power, and finally established the Napoleon Empire.
From the perspective of Europe as a whole, the capitalist economy at that time was still in the period of workshop and handicraft industry, and it was impossible for the capitalist economy to completely defeat the feudal economy. Therefore, both the First Republic of France and the First Empire of France failed in the face of the powerful anti-French alliance representing the feudal forces of Europe as a whole. Whether Napoleon's command of Russia at Waterloo was wrong or not, the fate of the French Empire was doomed by historical laws. When the industrial revolution was in full swing or even completed in France, the capitalist economy already had the productivity to rule the world, and the French bourgeois regime was indeed strong and consolidated, making France a well-deserved hegemon in the European continent.