#napoleonic code

[illustratus]

[empirearchives]

Torture during the Napoleonic era

Torture was abolished in France in 1808 in the Code d'Instruction criminelle (Clémence Zacharie). Napoleon had earlier said on the issue of torture:

“The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile. The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to hear.”

Napoleon to Berthier, 11 November 1798, Corres., V, no. 3606, p. 128

[tmarshconnors]

"The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people."

Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.

Born: 15 August 1769, Ajaccio, France

Died: 5 May 1821, Longwood House, Longwood, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

[anglerflsh]

Sorry if you followed me for art btw that was a ruse. 300 posts about the history of public law and the secularisation of legislation in the 19th century and the inquisition💥💥

[lemeute]

if Napoleon has one hater it's me if Napoleon has no more haters assume I'm dead etc etc etc

[andorianimpostor]

WAVERLY: Sixteen hours from now, Mr. Solo, [...] we'll reduce the island and everything on it to rubble. SOLO: Sir? They can't do that. WAVERLY: I beg your pardon. SOLO: Well, uh, IIIya, sir.

—3.12 | "The Concrete Overcoat Affair" – Part 2

[druid-boy-punk]

HIIIII I FINALLY FINISHED THE ART TRADEEEEE WITH @hello-astronomybabe THIS IS FROM THEIR W2H FANFIC TOFU!!! (with @tanglelover as a co-writer)

gore under the cut

[tmgstudios]

hes literally a cat to me

[skitskatdacat63]

The true old man fucker behavior is simping over historical figures

[napollya-inspiration]

I guess I'm powerless I didn't ask for this I'm not a masochist I guess I'm into it I like a lethal woman

lethal woman by dove cameron

Napoleon should have known that a woman who leveled the path to the top of the KGB in front of her would be lethal. Still, she can’t stop her fascination. Women in the service are taught there’s a number of weapons at their disposal. A flirtatious smile, a deeply cut dress, a sleight of hand. But this- She is something different altogether and Napoleon can’t bring herself to look away from her smile with blood between her teeth. Yes, lethal but oh so beautiful. If Napoleon ends up hurt at the end of this, she’ll have no one but herself to blame.

(fem!napoleon sees fem!illya in action for the first time)

[cadmusfly]

youtube recommended the entire 1970 movie called Waterloo to me and now i am watching napoleon passionately kiss a flag

[certifiedcoffeeaddict]

only the napoleon of the late 1819 and early 1820, mclynn?

[empirearchives]

Napoleon and Child Labor Laws:

“Napoleon was the first in France to be concerned about the condition of children and had a decree adopted on January 3, 1813 prohibiting the work of children under 10 years old.”

“Across the Channel, the same ban had been in effect since 1801 and concerned children under 8 years old. This was a major breakthrough especially for young miners forced to work in coal mines; many of them died of this terrible labor. Unfortunately, unscrupulous bosses took advantage of the fall of the Empire two years later to send this decree into oblivion.”

(Source)

[saecookie]

Fun(?) fact: I've spent a lot of time in an archive lately and most civil accounting books start in 1807. Why? Because Napoleon exported bureaucracy to his allies/new vassals (Baden was both).

Yeah, it checks out with the fact that in the minion universe minions used to serve Napoleon.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

Came for the Sherlock Holmes, stayed for the erudition and Sherlock Holmes, learned a lot about the Age of Sail along the way. :)

One of these days I'll put all that to good use by putting Sherlock Holmes on a ship (powered by traditional sail, of course, which was still hanging on for selected applications even in his day), and then ALL THE POWER WILL BE MINE BWAHAHAHAHA.

[aurorascribble]

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

_Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code