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Identifier: generalhistoryfo01myer (find matches)
Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o Vienna. The EmperorFrancis II. was now constrained to sign a treaty of peace at Lune-ville, in which he allowed the Rhine to be made the eastern fron-tier of France (February, 1801). The emperor also recognizedthe Cisalpine, Ligurian, Helvetian, and Batavian republics. Thefollowing year England was also glad to sign a peace at Amiens(March, 1802). His Works of Peace: the Code Napoleon. — Having wrung fromboth England and Austria an acknowledgment of his government,Napoleon was now free to devote his amazing energies to thereform and improvement of the internal affairs of France. So atthis time were begun by him those great works of various charac-ter which were continued through all the fifteen years of his su-premacy. His great military road over the Alps by the SimplonPass, surpasses in bold engineering the most difficult of theRoman roads, while many of his architectural works are the prideof France at the present day. Taking up the work of the Revolution, he caused the laws of
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NAPOLEON MADE CONSUL. 675 France to be revised and harmonized, producing the celebratedCode Napoleon, a work that is not unworthy of comparison withthe Corpus Juris Civilis of the Emperor Justinian. The influenceof this Code upon the development of Liberalism in WesternEurope is simply incalculable. It secured the work of the Revo-lution. It swept away the unequal, iniquitous, oppressive customs,regulations, decrees, and laws that were an inheritance from thefeudal ages. It recognized the equality in the eye of the lawof noble and peasant. It is to-day the frame-work of law inFrance, Holland, Belgium, Western Germany, Switzerland, andItaly. Had Napoleon done nothing else save to give this Codeto Europe, he would have conferred an inestimable benefit uponmankind. Napoleon made Consul for Life (1802). — As a reward forhis vast services to France, and also in order that his magnificentschemes of reform and improvement might be pursued withoutfear of interruption. Napoleon was now, by a

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