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_ Paris, February 17th, 1862. Ladies Wit...
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X.—Our French Correspondent. 4 -
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_ Paris, February 17th, 1862. Ladies Wit...
__ Paris , February 17 th , 1862 . Ladies Within , the last three weeksParis has been enjoying an
ably-, sustained controversy—an account of which will doubtless interest you and subscribers—chiefly relating * to the expediency of opening" to
female your operatives a number of employments for which they are well qualified , but from which they have hitherto been excluded . In
private circlesthis important social and industrial question has been for ms , discussed in the French capitaland deeply studied by
several any year French authors of celebrity . From time , to time , the journals have taken it in the absence of political news ; but within the last
fortnight , to the up exclusion of some of the speeches in the Chambers , and speculations as to the probable results of M . Fould ' s financial
scheme , they opened their columns to the advocates of woman ' s riht to work at whatever suits heras well as to those who took up
-an g opposite position . The Siecle and , the Opinion Nationale _-were the foremost on this occasion among" their Paris contemporaries ,
some of which adopted the paradox , —that the only just and reasonable to treat women generallyis to treat them unjustly and
unreasonabl way y . The Siecle has been , the able advocate of the claims of Frenchwomen to greater social and legal justice than they as
yet are granted ; and the Opinion Nationale , while willing to adopt a similar course , did not , on account of its very recent
foundationwish to do any tiling that might compromise it in public hav opinion e , been , more followers especiall of y St because . Simon some . But of the its we princi ek before pal redacteurs last its
. editors threw off the reserve they so long assumed , and gave permission to some gentlemen to express their disapproval of the
practice of employing females in printing establishments : then , to . others enjoying a high reputation in French society for their
_intelligence and great worth as social reformers , to say what they thought to the contrary : and lastlyto those who best understand the
, practical bearings of this most important problem , —the female operatives here . M . Geroult , the redacteur-en-chef _, abstained from
expressing Ms own peculiar opinions till the arguments on both sides were fairly exhausted ; and then advocatedin a very able and
well-received editorialthe riht that women , have to work a at very whatever individually suits , them g and the justice of giving to
eachfor work as well done as by , a man , the same amount of , As already statedthis controversy has in many quarters
been wages activel . y carried on , and , periodically found its way into the newspaper press . On this occasion , it was first brought before the
public by a journalist who enjoys the reputation of much cleverness , is a constant reader of Michelet ' s works , belongs to an Israelitish ,
family , and bears the name of Armand Levy .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/52/
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