La formación del derecho francés como modelo jurídico

Abstract

How did, historically speaking, France, as well as Europe and America, become aware that a single juridical model, comparable to either the Common Law or the German law, had been originated? This article attempts to reflect upon the shaping of a French law that has been useful as a juridical model to be exported. The evidence, the feeling of having shed light on juridical model in France, has been precisely clarified under the Ancient Régime, even before 1789; nevertheless, it is during the French Revolution when the idea that the shaping of a single juridical model is entertained and, later, with Napoleon's conquest spirit, that this French model is disseminated throughout Europe.