The French Civil Code

Charts the formation of the French Civil Code, examining both the public and private effects. It analyses the Code using contemporary and modern sources, includ... » 

Charts the formation of the French Civil Code, examining both the public and private effects. It analyses the Code using contemporary and modern sources, including very beautiful and concise extract from HAL Fisher's History of Europe, which gives an English historian's appraisal of Napoleon's contribution to the Code civil. «