Why did Napoleon have the 1810 French edition of De l’Allemagne seized and destroyed?

Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the 1810 French edition of Germaine de Staël’s De l’Allemagne (Germany) to be seized and destroyed because he perceived the work as being anti-French.1

At the time, De Staël was a prominent political figure and a known opponent of Napoleon, leading a circle of liberal resistance that caused him significant embarrassment. Her book, which provided a detailed study of German manners, literature, philosophy, and religion, was viewed by the regime as a threat to its control over public discourse and national sentiment. Following the destruction of the 10,000 copies printed in France, the work was eventually published in England in 1813.1