“'Napoleon had created the first explicit example of what came to be called ‘the administrative monarchy,’ an authoritarian state held in check by a well-defined legal code,' writes Broers. 'Nothing was further removed from the concept of Divine Right, and it drove a theoretical wedge between the old and the new monarchies.'”

yes a theoretical wedge - Napoleon wasn't checked at all - it reminds me of the so called democratic states of the Eastern Block during the cold wars.