I haven't heard of the Napoleonic Code.

Wait. Now, listen, did you ever hear of the Napoleonic Code, Stella?

We got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic Code.

Our judicial system was inherited from the Napoleonic Code, and I will be in Paris tomorrow to meet with French officials.

The Napoleonic Civil Code of 1804 was made applicable to the Niger immediately after independence, but has been applied only partially.

It looks to me like you been swindled. And when you get swindled under Napoleonic Code, I get swindled too. I don't like to get swindled.

Oh, well, all right, dear. Okay. We'll wait till she's through soaking in the hot tub then I'm gonna inquire if she's acquainted with the Napoleonic Code.

Under the Napoleonic Code a man has got to take an interest in his wife's affairs. And I mean especially now that she's gonna have a baby.

Ms. Henríquez de Sánchez Baret (Dominican Republic) explained that the Dominican Civil and Penal Codes dated back to the Napoleonic Codes and that modernization was a painstaking process.

In the state of Louisiana we got here what's known as the Napoleonic Code. Which says, what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa.

England implemented its Speenhamland system a form of outdoor relief intended to offset rising bread prices during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1795, the authorities of Speenhamland, a village in Berkshire, authorized a means tested sliding scale of wage supplements.

The first Holy Alliance was a creation of Austria s Prince Metternich following the Napoleonic wars. It was an attempt to preserve the peace (and the security of the relatively weak Austrian Empire) through a coalition of victors upholding shared values.

Consider the French Revolution, which began in 1789. Who would have predicted that within a decade, an obscure Corsican soldier would lead French armies to the banks of the Nile, or that the Napoleonic Wars would disrupt Europe until 1815?

The Enlightenment, after all, was born in France. There is the French Revolution, the Napoleonic epic, the Battle of the Marne won in 1914 thanks to spontaneous initiative when the government and the state failed  and the great revival of 1945 1950.

The Enlightenment, after all, was born in France. There is the French Revolution, the Napoleonic epic, the Battle of the Marne won in 1914 thanks to spontaneous initiative when the government and the state failed and the great revival of 1945 1950.

The genius of the Habsburg Empire s Prince Klemens von Metternich in framing a new international order after the Napoleonic Wars was that he did not push a defeated France into a corner. Although Metternich sought to deter any possible French resurgence, he restored France s prewar frontiers.

Yet, given today s growing global confusion, if not chaos, something like Proustian nostalgia for the Congress may not be out of order. Here, after all, was a meeting that, through tough but successful negotiations, reestablished international order after the upheavals caused by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

PARIS In his masterpiece Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger describes, probably too idyllically, the international balance of power system that, following the Congress of Vienna in 1814 1815, produced what came to be called the Concert of Europe. As Kissinger describes it, after the Napoleonic Wars, There was not only a physical equilibrium, but a moral one.

Reconciling in the first two decades following the Nazi Occupation of France, these countries leaders understood that their security and economic ties were far too important to their citizens wellbeing to allow the old hatreds to fester. They knew that the unimaginable violence of WWII was a direct result of the antagonisms that had festered since the Napoleonic Wars and that were allowed to persist after 1918.

Under the country's legal system, there are three categories of norms including norms on individual human rights The Napoleonic Civil Code is applicable to the Niger The Act of 16 March 1962 on the organization and jurisdiction of the courts stipulates that the customary law of the parties shall apply provided that they are not contrary to public policy and to the free exercise of the rights of the individual and family Islamic law.

Indeed, it is no accident that Henry Kissinger s masterpiece, A World Restored, was devoted to the study of the recreation of the world order by the Vienna Congress after the rupture of the French Revolution, followed by the Napoleonic adventures. Is it more difficult to predict, and adjust to, the coming of a fundamental change, than to defend the present order, under the motto of the devil you know is always preferable to the devil you don t know!