Napoleonic Code was where Napoleon established all of his laws . It mainly abolished the three estates from the Old Regime, granted equal rights before the law to people of all classes. Unfortunately women could not hold property and Napoleon could overrule any law.
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The Napoleonic code embodied enlightenment principles like equality of all citizens, religious toleration But the code undid some of the reforms of the French Revolution.
Napoleon established a Civil CODE, in which all of the laws of France were written as clear statutes.
Yes, the Napoleonic Code.
Napoleon came to power in 1799 but before him the Directory was in power. They abolished feudalism, but Napoleon then confirmed the abolishment of feudalism through the Civil Code also known as Code Napoleon. However Napoleon reintroduced hereditary rule and put a hierarchy in place through the legion of honour so he did a lot that went against the revolutionary idea of getting rid of feudalism.
The Napoleonic Code was a set of legal rules and guidelines.
Napoleon Bonaparte was the Emperor France from 1804 to 1814 and created a legal code called the Napoleonic Code. Laws could only be enforced if they were published officially, judges could not refuse to be just on the grounds of insufficiency of the law, and it established the dominance of man over wife and children. Other codes covered the right to choose a profession, religious toleration, equality of all citizens before the law, abolition of serfdom, protection of property rights, and .making strikes as well as unions illegal.