Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] The project of the lawyer Guy-Jean Baptiste Target (1733-1806), then judge and craftsman of the Napoleonic civil and penal codification, is part of the chain of projects that lead to the civil code of 1804, a project that we found at the National Archives of Paris. The text of 1804 is not born of a project but of an ascending sequence of projects which prefigure by their content a large part of the solutions that the code will contain and which constitute the fabric of the same substance as the Code. Target's text is interesting for another reason. Given the personality of its author, highly representative of the fundamental and delicate 'political' relationship between Napoleon and the jurists, this unknown project appears as an exemplary testimony of the French legal and political-cultural climate that reigned after the French Revolution. . In this document, like the glare of a mirror, the entire rather complex mental universe of the legislator and jurists halfway between revolution and reaction is reflected, and at the same time the Thermidorean roots of the Code.
| Translated title of the contribution | Towards Code Napoléon. Guy-Jean Baptiste Target's draft civil code (1798-1799) |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Publisher | Giuffrè Editore |
| Number of pages | 427 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9788814071751 |
| Publication status | Published - 1998 |
Keywords
- Processo di codificazione civile in Francia
- Projets de code civil de la Révolution à l'Empire