Napoléon - Les cinq codes avec indication de leurs dispositions corrélatives - 1827

Rare pocket edition of the five legal codes of the Kingdom of France during the Restoration: the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Commercial Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Penal Code -

The Five Codes of the French Empire are the body of laws that govern civil law uniformly in France, drawn up at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1800 to 1804.
Thirty-six laws were successively promulgated from March to May 1803 and from January to March 1804.

Then, the completed work, the law of 30 Ventôse An XII (21 March 1804), unites all these laws into a single body, which under the title of the French Civil Code included 2281 articles. It constitutes one of the most important elements of the Napoleonic legislative reform work and would become the best vehicle for the principles of 1789 across Europe conquered by the armies of Napoleon, who had become Emperor.

Bonaparte, who became Napoleon, would place great importance on his title of legislator: 'My true glory is not having won forty battles; Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories; what will never be erased, what will live forever, is my civil code.'

It is preceded by the Constitutional Charter of 1814, which established the constitutional monarchy after the end of Napoleon.

Napoleon - The Five Codes with an Indication of Their Correlative Provisions - 1827 - Charles Froment -
vi + 598 pages -

Good condition of the binding, the work in its original period marbled full calf leather, wear from use, spine ends missing with small losses of material, front hinge cracked, corners worn, marbled edges, smooth decorated spine, gilt lettering on a red morocco spine panel.

Good interior condition, some foxing, a nice vignette on the title page, text in two columns, marbled endpapers -

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