Hmm, I'd say Napoleon was a partial backlash against the Revolution, not proof that it "went too far".Don't think there's ever been a revolution without excesses or errors.
There was that chronology as discussed upthread....revolution that went too far (reign of terror), then military dictator, then the return of the monarchy. Not that Napoleon I was the element that drove the revolution too far. I think they would have managed that without him.