Code Napoléon
Americannoun
noun
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No, there was only one example of the perfect style, and that was the Code Napoléon; for there alone everything was subordinated to the exact and complete expression of what was to be said.
From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton
Brought up in exile, unfamiliar with France, Louis Bonaparte had assumed that the bourgeoisie remembered only that the Empire had curbed the Revolution, established social order, and given France the Code Napoléon.
From France in the Nineteenth Century by Latimer, Elizabeth
In Belgium the law is similar to that of the Code Napoléon, as it is also in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Roumania, Japan, and numerous South American lands.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Ellis, Havelock
Active work on the Code Napoléon begun, and part of the civil code promulgated.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various
The discontent was so widespread indeed that some concessions had to be made, such as the retention of the Code Napoléon.
From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort
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