TEISSIER-ENSMINGER (Anne) – THE AESTHETIC FORTUNE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE
TEISSIER-ENSMINGER (Anne) – THE AESTHETIC FORTUNE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE
    TEISSIER-ENSMINGER (Anne)
    THE AESTHETIC FORTUNE OF THE FRENCH CIVIL CODE
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    2004
    16 x 24 cm., paperback, 208 p.
    With Bonaparte's rise to power and the promise of a return to order after the revolutionary turmoil, it seemed that France could once again become the "mother of arts, arms, and laws" celebrated by Du Bellay. The promulgation of the Civil Code in 1804 fulfilled this hope, as the spirit of the Legislator then captivated even literary figures. Praised for its stylistic qualities, imitated, versified, or caricatured, the Napoleonic Code became, throughout the 19th century, not only the subject of study for all jurists but also a literary object. Anne Teissier-Ensminger invites us on a journey through the aesthetic destinies of this Code. She shows us how jurists became poets, and how writers and illustrators, in their own way, interpreted the law. On the occasion of its bicentenary, we are discovering the depth to which the Civil Code has penetrated, beyond legal thought, into the cultural life of France.

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Mots-clés : Edition - Collection commemorating the second centenary of the Civil Code

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