BONAPARTE and the CODE CIVIL: Une aventure insoupçonnée

Dear Friends,
We are delighted to invite you to a talk by one of our friends and member of the ESU Paris on a date-making subject which was raised after our visit to the Musée de la Légion d’Honneur:

BONAPARTE and the CODE CIVIL
Une aventure insoupçonnée

Jacqueline Lafon taught the History of Law at Paris Sorbonne and has published in France and in the USA. She has kindly accepted to talk to us about an extraordinary and unexpected adventure:…

In August 1799, when he was in Cairo, Bonaparte was informed of the dramatic situation in France. Upon his return to France, a newspaper “Le Messager” declared – “ everyone is expecting Bonaparte as he is the only one who brings hope to the country.”

Then followed the Coup d’Etat on 18 Brumaire An VIII. Bonaparte First Consul benefited from all powers to restore the State based on a solid law applied in the entire country. He imposed the creation of specific committees to write down the rules or codification on the main subjects – civil law, criminal law, commercial law, procedure.

Outstanding lawyers who used to practise before the Revolution were selected. That was the beginning of the adventure…

The talk will take place at the Mairie of the 7th arrondissement,
116 rue de Grenelle 75 007 Paris
on Thursday 8 February 2024 at 6.30pm.

Please send your answer to Luce Loussouarn, ljloussouarn@free.fr, before February 5th , as we have to send the list of participants to the Mairie.

You may invite your friends to this event.

Luce Loussouarn
President Esu Paris

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Will attend the talk Bonaparte and the Code Civil on February 8th.