The Pros And Cons Of The Napoleonic Code

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Conclusion More than two centuries after its promulgation, the Napoleonic Code is still living law in a great part of the world. History has thus partly justified the melancholic words uttered by Napoleon in exile: “My real glory is not the forty battles I won, for Waterloo’s defeat will destroy the memory of as many victories.…What nothing will destroy, what will live forever, is my Civil Code.” His life was so captivating that it could have been a “novel” with a beginning, a middle and an end that is still in the progress of being completely for even centuries after his death, it is concreate that the world has been highly influence by his life and his achievements. This extends from the idea of the place of democracy in the political system,