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<i>First page of the Code Pénal, © Fondation Napoléon</i>

The Code Pénal, one text of the larger codification movement that took place under Napoleon, was introduced in 1810 to replace the numerous laws adopted during the Revolution's ten-year period. Defining crimes and their respective punishments, it was the text intended to safeguard a French society which had recently been reorganised by the Code Civil. It took nearly ten years of discussion before the text would be ready for promulgation, which would take place on 22 February, 1810. The code remained in place in France until 1 March, 1994, when it was replaced by the new Code Pénal.

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