Napoleon’s special laws severed the colonies from the single French legal order

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It was a profound shift away from the colonial policy envisioned by Etienne Laveaux a few years before: the colonies would no longer have representatives in Paris, as they had during the previous years of Revolution. Continental France and her colonies, united under a single legal order for years, were again separated. It was a victory for an old tradition of creole legal thinking embodied in the work of Moreau, although it was a far cry from what many planters had hoped for at the beginning of the revolution: the “special laws” would not be shaped by the residents of the colony, but instead decreed by the metropolitan government. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 855

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• XREF: connects to: The Napoleonic Code ended feudalism and established legal equality for citizens — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 146