USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the “Napoleonic Code.” The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family and individual rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Napoleonic Code is also called the ‘French Civil Code of 1804’ defined the concept of equality before the law and also secured the right to property. This code was generated to simplify all the laws and systematized into a single document. This Code was spread to the regions under French control.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Napoleonic Code was created because the legal system in France before 1800 consisted of various laws derived from Roman, feudal, and royal legal codes. After the French Revolution, Napoleon wanted to modernize France by creating a new legal code that better reflected the revolution’s principles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Despite defeats in Egypt, Napoleon returned to a hero’s reception. Outmanoeuvring the government and supported by his army he collaborated in a coup d’état to overthrow the Directory and establish the Consulate. By 1800 Napoleon had become the First Consul of France, and was now in a position of total power.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Napoleonic code abolished the feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and manorial dues. Napoleon simplified administrative divisions. The Code established the supremacy of the husband over his wife and children.