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1. The Napoleonic Code
3. The Louisiana Prirchase
'Of all Napoleon's actioru. . . the
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has perhaps hid ttre most enduring and signifiof France.That was the creation of the French
cant consequmceswas one thatwas almost irrelcivil code the [Napoleonic Code]. In many ways
evant to his ry* pl"*. In 1803,Napoleon sold
the code embodied the ideals of the French
a vast tract of land to the United States.He realRevolutioru For example,under the code tlrere
ized that the Frendr possessionsin North
were no privileges of birtlu and all men were
Arnerica might be difficult to protect from
equal under the law. At the sarte ti41e,the iode . British conqiest, and besidesi.e *"s short of
w-assu-fficientlydose to the older Frenclrl"ryt ,'
castuThe t 6uiri"or Purchase,perhaps'the
and customsto be acceptableto the Frendr p'ub
largest peaceful transfer of land in all of history,
1icandthelegalprofession.orrthewhole,thc.transforrredtheUnitedStatesintoanationof
code was moderate,well organized, and writbn - - near<ontinental size. It is difficult to say what.
with comsrstdable brevity and outstanding
the United Stateswould have been tike without
rciaity. As a result, the code has not only
. the Louisiana Purchase;certainly it would have
endured in France(the Frendt civil code today is
been a vastly differcnt cogltry than it is today.
shikingly simillu to the original [Napoleonic
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