The Napoleonic code is in force in France today, although it has undergone many changes to adapt to modern times. This project, the Napoleonic code, would become his true universal legacy. In this way he had a great military project and a great transformative project of society. For this, it needed a single egalitarian legal framework that governed everywhere equally, something that did not exist in France at the time. Napoleon had in his mind to carry forward a civilizing and unifying project of the West. In this way the monarchical institutions would not be transformed and adapted but would become extinct. To achieve the great changes his country needed, he devised total legal change by dismantling the monarchy.
Napoleon was not only a military genius, but he was also a visionary when it came to law.
Its influence is reflected in all the civil codes of Europe, after its publication, and even in the codes of Latin America. This code is among the best known and studied in the world. The French civil code, better known as the Napoleonic code, is one of the great contributions of French law to universal law.