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"[it is the] Berezina" is something us Frenchies say when something is a total and utter catastrophe, and it refers to Napoleon's disastrous loss in Russia. Usu
by VSerge 8y ago
"[it is the] Berezina" is something us Frenchies say when something is a total and utter catastrophe, and it refers to Napoleon's disastrous loss in Russia. Usually Napoleon is remembered more positively for what he did in the legal area with the Civil Code, which remains the basis for civil law in France to this day.
- baud147258 8y agoThe Civil Code, built a lot on Roman law, is very backward concerning the place of women in society, like the obligation for a wife to secure her husband's permission to work and all kind of inequalities.
- williamdclt 8y agoNone of that is enforced today, those are stale laws if they still exist.
- oblio 8y agoNot only France, but most of Europe, and by virtue of European colonial empires, most of the world except for the British Empire.