Napoléon - Code civil des Français - 1804

You hold in your hands a rare and magnificent first edition of the French Civil Code, the founding text of modern law in France -

Promulgated by Napoléon in 1804, it gathers the legal principles governing the civil life of citizens, such as family, property, contracts, successions, etc.

Napoleon: "My true glory is not that I have won forty battles; nothing will erase it, it will live forever, it is my Civil Code." -

This book is a patrimonial treasure of the legislative work of the First Consul, which has left a lasting mark on French society and the world -

It marks the legal foundations that shaped contemporary France through this masterpiece of legislation -

It is followed by the alphabetical index of subjects -

Napoleon - French Civil Code - 1804 - From the Printing Office of the Republic -
2.+ 579 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its full brown edition leather, wear from use, red edges, smooth spine adorned with magnificent gilt lines and fleurs-de-lys, gilded title on a red morocco piece, fillets hot-stamped in the panels of the covers -

Good interior condition, rare foxing, a tear at the beginning of the work (half-title page missing), beautiful vignette on the title page, marbled endpapers in good condition -

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