Sarkozy a "Small Man?"

I find it childish that the socialists would mock Sarkozy and take the cheap shot of accusing him of suffering from "small man syndrome."

However, I recall the last time a Frenchman kicked serious ass and took a lot of names was this fellow called Napoleon.

So am I to understand that the socialists in France would now mock their historic great leader?

Or is it akin to the leftists here in the US where our founding fathers were nothing but a bunch of slave owning, religious right wing drunkards?