Napoléon - Les 6 codes - 1827

Beautiful reference work for lovers of law and history -

It gathers the six codes that formed the French legal corpus under the Restoration, namely the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Commercial Code, the Code of Criminal Instruction, the Forest Code and the Penal Code -

These codes are preceded by the Constitutional Charter which established the political regime of the Restoration, founded on constitutional monarchy -

Napoleon, who became Napoleon, will cling greatly to his title of legislator: “My true glory is not in having won forty battles; Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories; what nothing will erase, what will live forever, is my Civil Code”

Napoleon - The Six Codes - Ledentu - SD (1827)
xii + 282 + 138 + 84 + 94 + 76 + 86 + 40 + (2) pages -

Good binding condition, work in its full original brown morocco, wear from use, a few minor defects on boards and spine, bumped headcaps, missing title piece, rubbed joints and corners, foxing on edges, fore-edges colored in several colors, smooth spine ornamented -

Good interior condition, some stains, missing the title page, marbled endpapers in decent condition, a pleasing copy -

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