It was found to be too complex.

Another commission was ordered to reconstruct it: this time the Convention discovered that the revised edition was too concise.

Two other drafts were drawn up at the orders of the Directory, but neither gave satisfaction.

And thus it was reserved for the First Consul to achieve what the revolutionists had only begun, building on the foundations and with the very materials which their ten years' toil had prepared.
He had many other advantages.

The Second Consul, Cambaceres, was at his side, with stores of legal experience and habits of complaisance that were of the highest value.