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Читаем в экономической истории Европы:

In law, as elsewhere, the French Revolution was a watershed. Reforms were extensive and culminated in a series of codes (most famously civil, penal, and commercial). French battlefield successes ensured that laws enacted in Paris were diffused widely across Europe.
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The codes diffused swiftly because Napoleon ruled over much of Europe. They were adopted in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, parts of Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. Between 1815 and 1860, most of these countries wrote their own codes, with sometimes substantial alterations.
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Russia and the Ottoman Empire escaped the early-nineteenth- century spread of civil and commercial law reform associated with codes.
– The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. Volume 1, 1700-1870. pp 83-84.

Везде, где победил Чингиз Хан, движение к свободе, закону и коммерции затормозилось. Везде, где прошел Наполеон, движение к свободе, закону и коммерции усилилось. Россия получила два исторических удара: победу Чингиз Хана и поражение Наполеона.