French Penal Code of 1791
The French Penal Code of 1791 was a
penal code adopted during the French Revolution by the Constituent Assembly, between 25 September and 6 October 1791. It was France's first penal code, and was influenced by the Enlightenment thinking of Montesquieu and Cesare Beccaria.[1][2][3]
The
Napoleonic Penal Code of 1810, which replaced this Code.[4]
The Code did not enforce Catholic morality; there were, for example, no prohibitions against
Classical Antiquity). Its sponsor, Louis-Michel le Peletier, presented it to the Constituent Assembly saying that it only punished "true crimes", not the artificial offenses condemned by "superstition".[5][6]
See also
References
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Frank Schmalleger and Gordon M. Armstrong (1997). Crime and the justice system in America: an encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 23–24. ISBN 978-0-313-29409-9.
French penal code 1791.
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Jane Garrity (2006). "Mary Butts's 'Fanatical Pédérastie': Queer Urban Life in 1920s London and Paris". In Laura L. Doan and Jane Garrity (ed.). Sapphic modernities: sexuality, women, and national culture. Macmillan. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-4039-6498-4.
External links
- "Full text of the penal code of 1791" (in French). Retrieved 22 November 2016.