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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.

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It was simplified and it was secular.

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