After experiencing the agricultural reforms of Jean Dulles and the "strike" incident of Louis Pasteur, nothing else troubled Jerome Bonaparte. For the next three months, France moved toward becoming a fully industrialized country with a steady yet slow pace.
In the Lorraine and Calais regions, steel factories sprang up under Jerome Bonaparte's administrative orders and bank loans. The enhanced Bessemer steel refining method gave Lorraine's high-phosphorus iron ore a use, and the steel output of Lorraine and Calais had gradually surpassed that of Le Clerc, adding a new "engine" to France's military industry.
