Note 770 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

See the table in Bottet, La famille, 47 ff. His figures do not agree with those quoted from Wright's Report: According to his table, 3,010 separations were granted in 1883; 3,790 separations and divorces in 1884; 4,640 in 1885; 6,270 in 1886; 7,983 in 1887; and 7,430 in 1888. Compare Keller, "Divorces in France," Procds. of the Am. Stat. Assoc., I, 469 ff., who summarizes Turquan, Résultats statistiques de cinq années de divorce. See also "Divorce: from a French Point of View," North Am. Rev., CLV, 721-30, by Naquet, author of the law of 1884; and the vigorous criticism of Brun, "Divorce Made Easy," ibid., CLVII, 11-17. In 1897, 7,460 divorces were decreed; while in 1900 there were only 7,157; Dike, Rep. of the Nat. League for Protection of the Family (1903), 11.