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 inequality in the French society as well as political rebels against the new "egalitarian" system under the later reign of elected dictator Napoleon I. The system granted all adult male French citizens of the empire the right to vote, "even giving (Napoleon I) more than 99% of the popular vote"" (Life) The vote was definitely rigged, but as the Modern governments currently show, no system is perfect. The important fact is that there actually was a vote, demonstrating that the French had technically progressed in their revolution toward true democratic government and could call themselves the republic they wanted to be. Their leadership of political change is familiar to European history