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After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804.
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The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801 in Paris. It remained in effect until 1905.
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The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.