Rosalind Miles Quote
Napoleon pronounced, the husband must possess the absolute power and right to say to his wife, ‘Madam, you shall not go to the theater, you shall not receive such and such a person; for the children you will bear shall be mine.’ Equally, every woman must be made to realize that on leaving the tutelage of her family, she passes under that of her husband.13 To this end, the Code Napoléon equipped every husband with extraordinary, unprecedented, indeed despotic powers. He could compel his wife either to reside in or to move to any place he decreed; everything she ever owned or earned became his; in divorce, he kept the children, the house and all the goods,
Napoleon pronounced, the husband must possess the absolute power and right to say to his wife, ‘Madam, you shall not go to the theater, you shall not receive such and such a person; for the children you will bear shall be mine.’ Equally, every woman must be made to realize that on leaving the tutelage of her family, she passes under that of her husband.13 To this end, the Code Napoléon equipped every husband with extraordinary, unprecedented, indeed despotic powers. He could compel his wife either to reside in or to move to any place he decreed; everything she ever owned or earned became his; in divorce, he kept the children, the house and all the goods,
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Rosalind Miles (actress) (1940-2022), American actress and fashion model
Rosalind Miles (author) (born 1943), English author