WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -It codified several branches of law, including commercial and criminal law, and divided civil law into categories of property and family. The Napoleonic Code made the authority of men over their families stronger, deprived women of any individual rights, and reduced the rights of illegitimate children.

Detailed explanation-2: -Q: How did Napoleon support the French Revolution? Napoleon created the lycée system of schools for universal education, built many colleges, and introduced new civic codes that gave vastly more freedom to the French than during the Monarchy, thus supporting the Revolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The code removed all privileges based on birth, established equality before the law and secured the right to property, simplified, administrative divisions, abolished the feudal system and freed peasants from serfdom and manorial dues. Guild system was removed and transport and communication system improved.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -It was adopted in many countries occupied by the French during the Napoleonic Wars and thus formed the basis of the law systems of Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal (and their former colonies), and Poland (1808–1946).

Detailed explanation-6: -The code “protected many of the gains of the French Revolution by ensuring equality of all male citizens before the law, universal male suffrage, property rights, and religious liberty”2 while “abolishing all feudal and local customs.”