THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
NAPOLEONIC WARS
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Civil Code (Napoleonic Code)
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French Bill of Rights
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Declaration of the Rights of Men
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Tennis Court Oath
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Detailed explanation-1: -Napoleonic Code, French Code Napoléon, French civil code enacted on March 21, 1804, and still extant, with revisions. It was the main influence on the 19th-century civil codes of most countries of continental Europe and Latin America.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon, lit. “Code Napoleon"), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force, although frequently amended.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The Code recognized the principles of civil liberty, equality before the law (although not for women in the same sense as for men), and the secular character of the state.