ORDER AND DISORDER IN THE NAPOLEONIC SYSTEM Edited by Jean-Jacques CLÈRE & Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN
ORDER AND DISORDER IN THE NAPOLEONIC SYSTEM Edited by Jean-Jacques CLÈRE & Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN
    ORDER AND DISORDER IN THE NAPOLEONIC SYSTEM Edited by Jean-Jacques CLÈRE & Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    2003
    16 x 24 cm., paperback, 336 p.
    Order and disorder: are opposites at the heart of the Napoleonic regime? This book attempts to answer this question by examining all the political, administrative, and social institutions established after the coup of 18 Brumaire. Far from the hagiography that has so long dominated the collective imagination's view of the Empire, and without succumbing to the contemporary and sensationalist temptation of the Black Legend, this work offers an admirable interpretation of the complexity and contradictions of the era. It explores the violence of order against the disorder of suspected or proven dissent, the state order as a powerful synthesis of previous political upheavals, and the apparent order that both conceals and fosters disorder within itself. From the granite masses of institutions to the reactionary ulterior motives of the drafters of the Civil Code, from the rationalization of the administrative system to the subjugation of minds and souls by the University and the Church, from the establishment of a system of political philosophy to the dissidences of the left as well as the right, the richness of the issues and contributions contained in this volume clearly makes it one of the reference texts published on the occasion of the multiple commemorations that mark the bicentenary of each of the Napoleonic institutions.

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

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