Towards the beginning of the nineteenth century France was suffering from inflation, overpopulation, corruption within the government, unfair parliamentary voting, and several other things. Once Napoleon became in charge reforms within the government, and france’s economy were quickly being made. The reforms he contributed are some of the prime examples of how he was an effective leader of France. Napoleon created equal taxation for the citizens of France so that now the burden of the taxes were not just on the third estate. One of his more significant reforms was his Napoleonic code. The Western Civilization textbook, written by Joshua Cole and Carole Symes, explains “The Napoleonic Code, as the civil code came to be called, pivoted on two