Dictator embraced by the French after revolution - Napoleon according to Orwell (6)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

AMIN (Idi Amin, former military dictator in Uganda) contained in (embraced by) LA (feminine form of “the” in French), all reversed (after revolution). Napoleon (a pig) is a character in Animal Farm by George Orwell.