Word: husbanding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under which a wife does not acquire her husband's rank, nor can the children succeed to the crown...
Since 1840, when the Code Napoléon was enacted as France's basic civil law, married Frenchwomen have enjoyed all the legal privileges one might expect from the Emperor's opinion of them. Novelist George Sand watched in despair in the 19th century while her husband squandered her immense dowry and made her ask permission to spend the money she earned from her books and plays. A present-day French woman told her lawyer that her husband had just sold her store, and now wanted a divorce. What could she do? "Cry, madame, cry," she was advised...
...Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet. What the government had in mind, beamed Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, was "a veritable emancipation of women." Under the new bill, a married woman for the first time will be able to take a job or open a bank account without her husband's permission. She will have the legal right to help decide where her children can go to school, to veto his plans to sell her property, and retain her own possessions if there is a divorce...
...week's end, the doctor's wife was released after her husband agreed to issue a Communist-style statement denouncing the country's social inequalities. The police were luckier with Carlos Mejia. They freed him and arrested four persons, including the Mejia family's ex-chauffeur. But it was one of their few successes. In all the cases reported last year, not a single kidnaper has been brought to trial...
...play. Confidently the vacationing Shah of Iran, 45, stepped up to the line in a Cambridgeshire pub and lofted three darts at the board. Kerplop, kerplop, two flew wide and dropped to the floor. Setting aside her 'arf pint, Queen Farah Diba, 26, demurely followed her husband to the line. There was a gleam in the lady's eye. Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! She neatly ringed the bull's-eye. Farah pooh-poohed it all, but a bricklayer in the public side had an eye for form. "I wouldn't have minded playing him for a fiver...