Napoleonic Codes

Question 1

What was the Napoleonic codes ?

Answer 1

The Napoleonic codes were created as part of Napoleon work to simplify Francis complex structure of laws

Question 2

When was the laws introduced?

Answer 2

March 1804

Question 3

What did the napoleonic codes confirm ?

Answer 3

• The abolition of feudalism and removal of noble and church privilege
• The secularisation of the state
• Equality before the law and freedom of conscience
• It also confirmed the legal rights of the purchases of the bien nationaux
• Continue to support employee over employer and for associations of workers

Question 4

Examples of controversial laws

Answer 4

• The father/husband was confirmed as head of the family
• females rights of inheritance was restricted
• An unmarried woman could not act as a guardian or witness illegal document

Question 5

Prefects

Answer 5

• agents directly responsible for carrying out central authority in départments 
• Responsible for conscription, tax collection, agriculture, industry, commission, public work, Finance, public warfare and public education 

Question 6

Police and Control

Answer 6

Gendarmerie - An elite and efficient professional force made up of army veterans, they were effective in dealing with everyday law enforcement

The administrative police -
Responsible for general surveillance, they gathered information on habitual troublemakers and ensure that any political troublemakers were rounded up

Question 7

How did Napoleon keep surveillance

Answer 7

• The minister of police was expected to make daily reports directly to Napoleon
• By 1810 Napoleon expected his imperial machine not only to crush actual opposition but to seek our potential since opponents largest or small
• Surveillance was consistent: correspondence was intercepted, recipients of suspicious letters interrogated, potential troublemakers permanently exiled and dangerous literature destroyed 

Question 8

Significant of Napoleonic codes

Answer 8

Napoleonic codes established a comprehensive revision of laws, while his reorganisation of local government provided him without agents to oversee the carrying out of those laws.
Napoleon’s administrative reforms were built on the changes of the revolutionary period but he has also broke back centralisation from the • Ancien Regime