Individuals who have talent and are not noble must enjoy equal consideration and employment from you.

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Let every species of serfage and of intermediary lien between the sovereign and the lowest class of people be abolished.

The benefits of the code Napoleon, the publicity of proceedings, the establishment of juries, will form so many distinctive characteristics of your monarchy."-- His leading object is the suppression of feudalism, that is to say, of the great families and old historic authorities.

He relies for this especially on his civil code: "That is the great advantage of the code;...