It was succeeded by the Constitution of the Year X, which made Napoleon First Consul for Life. The Constitution of the Year X was a national constitution of France adopted during the Year X of the French Revolutionary Calendar. ...
Malcolm Crook refers to it as the "short and obscure Constitution of the Year VIII" [1] It was the first constitution since the Revolution without a Declaration of Rights.
Desired for centuries by the France of the ancien regime, and demanded by the cahiers of 1789, this "code of civil laws common to the whole realm" was promised by the constitution of 1791.
As a member of one of the councils, he drew up a third under the Directory, and these projected forms came in turn nearer and nearer to what was to be the ultimate form of the code.
This was done in part by one of the members, Jacqueminot, and finally under the constitution of the yearVIII., the completion of the work was taken in hand.
The prefects of the department were created by a law of the 28th Pluviose in the yearVIII.
In the yearVIII., in the discussion of the law of the 28th Pluviose, no reason was stated for the choice of this term.
This function was most useful in the yearVIII., when communications were difficult, even within a department, but nowadays it only leads to complications.
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