No, I think a convincing case can be made for a species of autocrat, certainly in the same way that the British had constitutional monarchs, France had started a similar version and the fact that we even talk about successions to Napoleon I means he was or had become the conventional head of an self perpetuating oligarchy. Even Cromwell ended up in that way, and he famously refused to be King.., didn't stop him getting a crown and an heir though.