It was France's first penal code, and was influenced by the Enlightenment thinking of Cesare Beccaria and Montesquieu.
Homosexuality is legal in Mexico City since the country's adoption of the Napoleonic Code (via the brief French occupation of Mexico (1862–67)).
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