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napoleon
Title: napoleon
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 447 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
napoleon
Under the Napoleonic Civil Code there is very little difference between a women and a child. In the event that her husband wants to move, she is obligated to follow behind him. She will be obedient; follow him from place to place and answer to her husbands’ beckon call. The code expressions that a wife should “remain silent in the ream of public business.” For the most part, she is beneath her husband: the code …showed first 75 words of 447 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 447 total…But in addition to that, a the wife may find herself confined in prison, if that is the judgement of the public minister, anywhere from 3 to 24 months. It is almost as if they are reprimanding her as if she is a child. If a female commits adultery she is put on punishment and is sent into closed quarters, the same way a child is grounded and sent to their room.
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**Bibliography**
French civil code of 1802
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