Ministry of the Interior Ministry of Finance & Imperial Credit. Minister of Manufactures, Mines, and Imperial Works. Ministry of Roads, Canals, Railways, and Telegraphs Ministry of War. Minister of the Navy & Maritime Power. Public Instruction & Education. Sciences, Arts, and Technical Instruction. Ministry of Agriculture. Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Napoleon II set the paper down and looked at it again.
The structure itself was sound. France had not been poorly governed. But the names told him everything he needed to know about how the state had grown—layer by layer, decree by decree, without ever being trimmed back. Long titles. Repeated responsibilities. Ministries stepping into each other's work simply because no one had stopped them.
It was inefficient. And he hated anything that causes inefficiency.
He took a pen and began marking changes.
