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194 - FRENCH CIVIL CODE. First and only official edition. Paris, I…
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FRENCH CIVIL CODE. First and only official edition. Paris, Imprimerie de la République, 1804. In-8, half brown basane, smooth spine decorated (period binding). First edition. The Napoleonic Code, drafted in barely thirteen months and promulgated on 21 March 1804, is considered to be "one of the greatest monuments to the principle of equality proclaimed by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (Pierre Larousse). The first official edition was published simultaneously in in-4, in-8 and in-32 formats. Worn binding, some foxing and minor marginal spotting. En français dans le texte, n°210 - Monglond, VI, 567.
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