Code civil des Français

Paris, 1804.

『フランス人の民法典（ナポレオン法典）』

　Napoleon was made consul for life by plebiscite in August 1802, and proclaimed emperor by the senate in May 1804. This civil code was promulgated in March 1803, about two months before Napoleon became emperor, and was drafted by an editorial committee of four legal experts appointed by Napoleon. It consists of 2,281 articles, and recognizes a number of basic principles, including equality before the law, the inviolability of private ownership, freedom of the individual,and freedom of worship. These rights won by the people through the French Revolution were respected by Napoleon, who wielded enormous power, and were promulgated in the form of a new body of laws that served as a model of modern civil law for other European nations as a model of modern civil law. Subsequently amended and supplemented, it remains in force in France to this day. Japan's own prewar system of civil law was influenced by the Napoleonic code through the work of French jurists such as Gustave Boissonade, and the code’s legacy is still evident in contemporary Japanese law.
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