Constitution of the Year XII

Constitution of the Year XII
Constitution of the Year XII (1804).
Original title	(French) Constitution de l'an XII
Ratified	1804
Repealed	1814

The Constitution of the Year XII was a national constitution of France adopted during the Year XII of the French Revolutionary Calendar (1804 in the Gregorian calendar).

It amended the earlier Constitution of the Year VIII and Constitution of the Year X, establishing the First French Empire with Napoleon Bonaparte — previously First Consul for Life, with wide-ranging powers — as Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. The Constitution established the House of Bonaparte as France's imperial dynasty, making the throne hereditary in Napoleon's family. The Constitution of the Year XII was later itself extensively amended by the Additional Act and definitively abolished with the final return of the Bourbons in 1815.

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Constitution of the Year XII

Constitutions of France

1791 1793 (Year I) 1795 (Year III) 1799 (Year VIII) 1802 (Year X) 1804 (Year XII) 1814 1815 1830 1848 1852 1875 1940 1945 1946 1958 (Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ∙ Charter for the Environment) Proposed: Girondin constitutional project (1793)

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