Thanks to a very entertaining article by Anne Teissier-Ensminger in Sociétés et représentations entitled La loi au figuré : trois illustrateurs du Code pénal français, I discovered illustrated Codes from the Forties and the 1990s Here is Joseph Hémard from 1941 on the Code section dealing with castration: and on capital punishment: Hémard had illustrated the Code civil back in 1925 and the Lottery Act of 1938. [read post]