Official text of the Commercial Code, ratified by Napoleon at Fontainebleau on 25 September 1807 and applied from 1 January 1808.<\/p>\n
The Code de Commerce<\/i> was one of Napoleon’s three major works to reform French law, the others being the Code Napol\u00e9on<\/i> and the Code P\u00e9nal<\/i>.<\/p>\n
“Le Code de Commerce<\/i> de 1807 couronne les efforts constants d\u00e9ploy\u00e9s tout au long du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle pour adapter et mettre \u00e0 jour l’ordonnance de 1673 ou Code marchand dont les imperfections s’\u00e9taient assez vite fait sentir… Il fallut les retentissantes faillites de 1806 pour que le projet soit ressorti des cartons o\u00f9 il s’\u00e9tait fait oublier. L’Empereur, \u00e9mu par le scandale que suscit\u00e8rent ces affaires frauduleuses, enjoignit au Conseil de se mettre aussi t\u00f4t \u00e0 l’ouvrage. Le prestige du n\u00e9goce \u00e9tait au plus bas, et les int\u00e9r\u00eats des commer\u00e7ants n’\u00e9taient pratiquement pas repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s au Conseil d’\u00c9tat… La discussion au Conseil d’\u00c9tat s’engagea le 4 novembre 1806 et s’\u00e9tendit sur pr\u00e8s de neuf mois, occupant quelque soixante-huit s\u00e9ances… L’adoption d\u00e9finitive, puis la promulgation s\u00e9par\u00e9e de chacune des lois composant le Code de Commerce<\/i>, s’\u00e9chelonn\u00e8rent tout au long du mois de septembre” (Tulard).<\/p>\n
A very fine copy, from the deluxe 4to edition, complete with the very detailed Table of Contents (under the date of the original 1807 edition).<\/p>\n
The Code (from the 1810 edition) is entirely interleaved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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