Napoleonic Code: References & Edit History

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Deleted Web site: Digital Commons at DU - The Code Napoleon: Buried but Ruling in Latin America (PDF). Sep 11, 2026
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at DU - The Code Napoleon: Buried but Ruling in Latin America (PDF). Sep 11, 2026
Add new Web site: Louisiana State University Law Digital Commons - A Controversial Transplant? Debate over the Adaptation of the Napoleonic Code on the Polish Territories in the Early 19th Century (PDF). Dec 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital Commons at DU - The Code Napoleon: Buried but Ruling in Latin America (PDF). Oct 04, 2024
Media added. Nov 14, 2023
Media added. Sep 19, 2023
Add new Web site: 64 Parishes - Napoleonic Code. Jul 25, 2023
Add new Web site: Teach Democracy - The Code Napoleon. Apr 11, 2023
Corrected display issue. Jan 19, 2018
Add new Web site: Napoleon.org - The French Civil Code, or Code Civil, 21 March, 1804: An Overview. Jul 19, 2016
Article thoroughly revised. May 29, 2015
Add new Web site: Scholarship at Cornell Law - Worldwide Influence of the French Civil Code of 1804, on the Occasion of its Bicentennial Celebration. Dec 05, 2014
Add new Web site: Napoleon.org - The French Civil Code, or Code Civil, 21 March, 1804: An Overview. Dec 05, 2014
Add new Web site: Scholarship at Cornell Law - Worldwide Influence of the French Civil Code of 1804, on the Occasion of its Bicentennial Celebration. Dec 05, 2014
Add new Web site: Napoleon.org - The French Civil Code, or Code Civil, 21 March, 1804: An Overview. Dec 05, 2014
Changed "The Netherlands" to "the Netherlands." Sep 09, 2010
Added image of the original edition of the civil code. Aug 07, 2009
Added new Web site: The Napoleon Series - Goverement & Politics: The Civil Code. Dec 13, 2007
Added new Web site: History.com - Napoleonic Code. Dec 13, 2007
Article revised. Jul 11, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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