In a letter to the editor published Jan. 31 and titled "A legal code on guilt for priest?," the author wrote that "in the Napoleonic Code an accused person was considered guilty until proven innocent.

Original manuscripts on the Consulate and Empire that belonged to Jean-Etienne-Marie Portalis (1746-1807), one of the architects of the Napoleonic Code at an auction in 2012. (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE ...

Napoleonic Code: The World Heritage of Napoleon “My real pride was not in having won forty wars; Waterloo will obliterate the memory of so many wins. My Civil Code is something that will carry on in ...

A rare copy of the Napoleonic Code, a foundational text for civil law in Belgium and other countries, is set to be auctioned in Brussels. The announcement was made by the Belgian auction house ...

Ridley Scott’s biopic Napoleon veers from battlefield to boudoir, portraying Bonaparte as a caricature of masculine excess. As a historian who specializes in the French Revolution, my main reservation ...

There are many things that Napoleon Bonaparte was known for — his leadership abilities, his rise and fall, his height, his hand tucked in his coat, Josephine. In Louisiana, however, he is widely known ...