Note 592 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
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On the revolutionary legislation regarding marriage and divorce (1792-1816) see Naquet, Le divorce (Paris, 1877), 37-56, 153-353, containing extracts from the debates, text of the laws, reports, and other documents; Archives parlementaires, XXVI, 166-86, giving the report on the proposed civil marriage law; Wright, Report, 1004-6, presenting summaries of the laws; Champion, "La revolution et la réforme de l'état civil," La révolution française, June 14, 1887; Colfavru, "La question du divorce devant les législateurs de la révolution," ibid., March 14, 1884; Koenigswarter, Histoire de l'organisation de la famille en France, 268 ff.; Glasson, Le mar. civil et le divorce, 252-75; Legrand, Le mariage et les mœurs en France, 196-99; Durrieux, Du divorce, 99 ff.; Féval, Pas de divorce, 74 ff.; Fiaux, La femme, le mariage, et le divorce, 25 ff.; Vraye and Gode, Le divorce et la séparation du corps, I, 7-26; Bertillon, Étude démographique du divorce, 89 ff.; and in general Lasaulx, Uebereinstimmung der französischen Ehetrennungsgesetze mit Gotteswort (Koblenz and Hadamar, 1816).
A powerful influence on revolutionary opinion must have been exerted by the remarkable Contrat conjugal, published in 1781, again in 1783, and in German translation in 1784, which advocated civil marriage and free divorce, while attacking the ecclesiastical system of impediments and dispensations. The revolutionary ideas regarding divorce are also vigorously presented by Hennet, Du divorce (3d ed., Paris, 1792); and by Bouchotte, Observations sur le divorce (Paris, 1790). On the other hand, the divorce law of 1792 is criticised and divorce opposed by Madame Necker, Réflexions sur le divorce (Paris, 1792; Lausanne, 1794); as in Du divorce (Paris, 1801), 1 ff., by Bonald, who opposed the law of 1803 and secured its repeal in 1816. See Père Daniel's Le mariage chrétien et le Code Napoléon (Paris, 1870); and for an examination of the literature of the period, Tissot, Le mariage, la séparation, et le divorce, 174 ff., 180 ff., 196 ff., 211 ff., 222 ff.