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54 WOMEN IN FRENCH SWITZERLAND;
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the hands of a conseil judiciaire _. Finally , she can mark out for ~ herself career she likesthe law on this point enacts _nothing ,
and whatever any the law does _; not forbidit authorizes . Commerce , industry , art , everything is open to her , , except public offices and
what served dered are and to men called her . liberty Beyond les fauctions of these action , avi she so gues far is , neither which as the law compelled are is expressl concerned nor y hin , re is - -
belong comp The lete , to Neuchatel . m The anners onl , Code y usage obstacles is , and quite the she , as force has liberal of to public . overcome The op Fribourg inion are . such Code as
provides onlin quite a woman special of cases full age with ling a curator onlto , married or a conseil women judiciaire ; and
this y is done in the interest , of app the y wife against y the husband . But it Is not so in the Canton de Vaud and the "Valais , where , as regards
women remain the , in the divorced perpetual old wife Romanic tutelage and the custom . widow " The still , are unmarried prevails provided . woman Here with , a women of conse full il
judiciare age , The , p " erp says etual the tutelage Vaudois , law of . woman is an old remnant of the of unmarried
ancient Roman law . Nevertheless the emancipation and widows is not altogether modern and unexampled in
women ancient Cesarswho history showe . It d dates themselves as far much back more as the just leg towards islation women of the
In than realit the , old the patrici triump an h s of of the the democratic republic . princi The era le of over the the Cesar pleb s eian was
to princi consummate ple y . The the emperors degradation were of merel the old y tribunes senatorial p , cro oli wne garch d , In y . _order The
greatest under aristocratic injustices institutions towards women , they being have always sacrificed been to the perpetrated prepon- .. from the time
derating of gula Augustus it existed greatness , the only tutelage of in the form heads of women : it of was families became aboli . shed relaxed Thus by , Claudius ; under , Cali and - But in the
only reappeared for a moment under Dioclesian . this however women middle institution -ages was , it , changed re feudal -established is purel and its character aristocratic protective by the , Roman and , — while where the clergy perpetual in it ancient . exists Little tutelage to Rome thi by s little day and of , , _,
in agnati feudal and Europe of the , it male was y heirs a privilege to the , disadvantage constituted in of favour the woman of the >
, who Thus had , in in the fact , Canton only a de life Vaud interest the in conseil her property judiciaire . is appointed
woman by the justice on the of choic the e peace of the , after person , having to be g appointed iven a hearing . The to coun the
sellor of imposed , strawalways by the removable law on every at her Vaudoise request is , the in authorit fact , onl y y oft a
the man justice of , the peace , which he never refuses , , being alone required . It is a counter-signature which is practically a nullity who , —
a burden and an annoyance , imposed upon busy men , are
54 Women In French Switzerland;
54 WOMEN IN FRENCH SWITZERLAND ;
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/54/
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