The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute
In March 1808 the décret infâme restricted Jewish commerce and residence. In the causal graph this event weakens Protection of Minority Rights, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.
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In March 1808 the décret infâme restricted Jewish commerce and residence. It is a discriminatory statute. Consistories of the same season stay a different row. Napoleon's documented role is: The same season's infamous decree limited residence and trade. It is a rights cost, split from consistory incorporation.
Context
Alsatian debt politics sit in the file. Sharing the decree with that lobby is required. The setting of The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute is the public file around 1808-03-17. Contribution type is direct. Driver protection-of-minority-rights is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Shared responsibility is part of The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute. Naming Napoleon does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1808-03-17 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Why it matters
Worsening path from The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute on 1808-03-17. Discriminatory commercial-residence rules are a rights path stored as cost. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Napoleon
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.44 · verified
The same season's infamous decree limited residence and trade. It is a rights cost, split from consistory incorporation.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute
- weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
- strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 17 March 1808 · verified
Discriminatory commercial-residence rules are a rights path stored as cost.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)
Observed
29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).
20212023 Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Napoleon, metric system neighbourhoodEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Cambridge Dürer and Northern Renaissance studiesCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Napoleon, décret infâme neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on 1808 Jewish decree at https://www.cambridge.org/core/ (opens in a new tab) (Cambridge University Press). Official carrier: Britannica — Napoleon, décret infâme neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Cambridge studies neighbourhood on 1808 Jewish decree (https://www.cambridge.org/core/ (opens in a new tab); Cambridge University Press).
Established: a sourced public record of The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute under 1808-03-17 for Napoleon. Established: a sourced public record of The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute under 1808-03-17.
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Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Same month as consistories: two instruments. Mixed effects of The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute are separate paths.
The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorNapoleon
- contributed toFactThe 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute
- weakensDriverProtection of Minority Rights
- strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government
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Factrail. (2026). The 1808 décret infâme restricts Jewish commerce and residence as a dated discriminatory statute. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/nap-decret-infame
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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