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A voice from the past

One passage from an earlier register, with where it came from.

1789 fr →

Grievances of the women of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Ciboure to the King

On divorce, without hearing us

We mean the question of divorce, upon which reason and nature do not permit any ruling without our participation and without hearing us; seeing that, if divorce were to pass into law, our ever-tyrannical legislators might annex to it clauses wholly to our charge, to which it would be unjust to subject us by force.

Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Ciboure, Labourd

J.-B. Daranatz (ed.), pp. 317-327. Bilketa, ark:/27020/art0350740

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