Napoleon
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Napoléon
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
French emperor cited as an example of a capable foreign administrator resisted by national sentiment.
Napoleon, the greatest administrator of his time, offered worse outrages to the sentiment of Spain than the vilest of the Spanish Bourbons.
” Napoleon, cited in Life by Fournier, Eng.
The Law of Intellectual Property
Napoleon Bonaparte, cited as an example of a historical figure whose role no substitute could have filled.
Who can say, or believe, that if Alexander, and Cæsar, and Napoléon had not played the parts they did in human affairs, there was another Alexander, another Cæsar, another Napoléon, standing ready to step into their places, and do their work?
The Genius of the Common Law
French ruler whose codes are described as continuing pre-Revolutionary civil-law custom.
Napoleon’s codes were based on the customs and ordinances of the monarchy;