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French Penal Code of 1791

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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 principle of legality was foremost in the underlying philosophy of the 1791 Code. In the spirit of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria summarized the principles that were to be the foundation of the procedural system. In his words, "every citizen should know what punishment he should endure." As a consequence, the function of the judge was conceived as being strictly distributive: qualification of an act, infliction of the pre-set sanction. This concept was revolutionary in 1791 and clearly departed from the arbitrary trials of the ancien régime. The Code of 1791 was straightforward in this respect; most definitions were clear, leaving little room to the interpretation of the judge. This principle was reincorporated in 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 sodomy (this being the first Western code of law to decriminalize such conduct since 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]

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  1. ^ Elliot, Katherine (1 December 2010). Heller, Kevin Jon; Dubber, Markus (eds.). The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law. Stanford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-8047-7729-2. OCLC 1162537706.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ James Treadwell (2006). Criminology. SAGE. pp. 20–21. ISBN 978-1-4129-1133-7.
  4. ^ Clavier, Sophie M. (July 1997). Perspectives on French Criminal Law (Thesis). San Francisco State University. Archived from the original (DOC) on 31 October 2005. Retrieved 7 May 2008.
  5. ^ Jeffrey Merrick, Bryant T. Ragan, Homosexuality in Modern France, p. 82
  6. ^ 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.

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Preceded by
Not codified,
see Ancien Régime
 Penal code of France
1791–1795 		Succeeded by


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