Charter of 1815
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The Charter of 1815, signed on 22 April 1815, was the French constitution prepared by Benjamin Constant at the request of Napoleon I when he returned from exile on Elba. Officially named the Additiona
First page of the act
Constitution of the Year XII
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The Constitution of the Year XII, also called the Organic Sénatus-consulte of 28 Floréal, year XII, was a national constitution of the French First Republic adopted during the Year XII of the French R
Charter of 1815
…extensively amended (in fact virtually replacing) the previous Napoleonic Constitutions (Constitution of the Year VIII, Constitution of the Year X and Constitution of the Year XII). The Additional Act reframed the Napoleonic constitution into something more along the lines of the Bourbon Restoration's Charter of 1814 of Louis…
Constitution of the Year XII (1804).