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...bles]]. The fragments which have been preserved show that it was not a law code in the modern sense. It did not aim to provide a complete and coherent syst ...ant a defense. The standard edict thus functioned like a comprehensive law code, even though it did not formally have the force of law. It indicated the re

In the original [[Napoleonic Code]], a man could ask to be divorced from his wife if she committed adultery,

At the end of the Napoleonic period, the [[Congress of Vienna]] marked the beginning of a conservative r ...odes may differ from nation to nation, and only try to support their moral code within their own culture. That is, a cultural conservative may doubt whethe

The Napoleonic era institutionalized the secularization of French society, and exported th ...ranging from the moral universalism of humanism, which holds that a moral code should be applied consistently to all humans, to moral nihilism, which hold