FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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A comprehensive and uniform system of laws established for France by Napoleon.
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Jacobin leader whose time as leader became known as the Reign of Terror in France.
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A sudden seizure of political power in a nation.
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A machine for beheading people, used as means of execution during the French Revolution.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil Code of 1804 – usually known as the Napoleonic Code, secured the right to property, established equality before the law, and removed all privileges based on birth. To the regions under French control, this Napoleonic Code was exported.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.