>>24197980
>set back France by 70 years
>to...1740?
Your premise makes no sense. His time saw the country completing a phase of accelerated history and his civil officers carved the public institutions, conceptions of collective identity, and legal systems of modernity that have been adopted in some form or other by 80% of the world.
The most butthurt at the time were "conservatives", in the actual sense of perpetuation of previous norms, whether Ancien Regime or some of the three intermediate rules in the 1790s.
The only issue in which he might be interpreted as going back was the reestablishment of slavery, but that was only going back 10 years and the slavery he reestablished was a dulled version because of the issues in the sugar islands related to the sudden abolition.

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What is the best "great men" biography? Bonus points: Ideally someone not born into total privilege.

What is the best "great men" biography?
Bonus points: Ideally someone not born into total privilege.