The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution can be seen as the restructuring of France to create equality by eliminating the nobility who created an inequality in French society as well as the rebels politicians against the new “egalitarian” system under the subsequent rule of the elected dictator, Napoleon I. The system granted all French adult male citizens in the empire the right to vote, once even “giving (Napoleon I) over 99% of the popular vote.”(Life) The vote was certainly rigged but, as current modern governments demonstrate, no system is perfect. The important fact is that there actually was a vote, proving that technically the French had made progress with their revolution towards true democratic government and could call themselves the republic they wanted to become. Their direction of political change is familiar to European history