Paris 2024 – Le dôme des Invalides – Mon seul code par sa simplicité, a fait plus de bien en France que la masse de toutes les lois qui mont précéde

My code alone, by its simplicity, has done more good in France than the mass of all the laws that preceded me.
Napoleon established a new law system, the Napoleon Code, adopted in many countries (such as the Netherlands) as base for civil and criminal law. The Napoleon Code was based on Roman Law.