Western Civilization II / Unit 8 WC2 0710 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Bank of France, 1800, and the Civil Code, 1804
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The idea
He ended inflation with tax collection, auditing and a Bank of France in eighteen hundred, paying in silver and gold. The Civil Code of eighteen-oh-four, the Code Napoléon, preserved seventeen eighty-nine's legal equality and, the witness says, spread rapidly through Europe.
In practice
Praised for clarity; copied for a century.
Where people slip
Equality before the law, not equality of persons: 0713.
Your place on the trail
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