How did Napoleon change the French government?

Answer 1

He created a stronger, centralized government.

He established a new legal code and sucked.He modernized Paris.

• Napoleon endorsed the Revolutionary land settlement involving the sale of church lands, which gave all peasant and bourgeois purchasers a vested interest in supporting the regime. Financial stability was helped too, by the foundation of the Bank of France in 1803. The tax system was simplified and made more efficient along line sketched out in the 1790s. The administrative reforms of the Revolutionary decade were also maintained, though in an uathoritarian twist in 1800 each department was endowed with a Napoleonic nominee, the prefect.. The prefect were essentially updated and streamlined versions of the intendants of the ancien regime. Within their constituencies they acted as petty emperors to ensure the imperial will was carried out. The reinforcement of the principle of authority was mirrored in the field of liberal freedoms: imprisonment without trial was introduced, overriding habeous corpus provisions. Napoleon reimposed strict censorship. Once the herald of Revolutionary politics, the newspaper no longer had a place in the hierarchical and repressive world of the First Empire: over a thousand new titles had appeared in the decade after 1789: by 1811 only four had full government authorization balls.

  As the decline of journalism indicates, colourful political hyperactivity gave way to an altogether paler version of public life after 1799. "If the press is not bridled" Napoleon commented "I shall not remain in power long." Politics became little more than a facade, especially after Napeoleon assumed the Imperial title. There were elected representative bodies, but they were toothless. Most legislative work was done by imperial decree - and done in volume. Over fifteen years Napeoloen was personally responsible for 80,000 letters and decrees. Political opponents were either deprived of a platform or sent into exile.

Answer 2

he changed the laws and education became more available to the middle class too.

Answer 3

revolutionised it's military and brought it into the modern world