Comments on: French Marriage Annulled for Lack of Virginity http://conflictoflaws.net/2008/french-marriage-annulled-for-lack-of-virginity/ News and Views in Private International Law Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:33:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Giorgio Buono http://conflictoflaws.net/2008/french-marriage-annulled-for-lack-of-virginity/comment-page-1/#comment-40897 Giorgio Buono Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:22:19 +0000 http://www.conflictoflaws.net/2008/cases/french-marriage-annulled-for-lack-of-virginity/#comment-40897 The "blogDalloz" (a blog edited by the renowned French legal publisher) has a downloadable .pdf version of the judgment, and hosts two academic comments (in French), by Hugues Fulchiron (Director of the "Centre de droit de la famille" at the University of Lyon 3 "Jean Moulin") and Aline Cheynet de Beaupré (Maître de conférences at the University of Orléans). Link: http://blog.dalloz.fr/blogdalloz/2008/06/le-mariage-et-l.html The “blogDalloz” (a blog edited by the renowned French legal publisher) has a downloadable .pdf version of the judgment, and hosts two academic comments (in French), by Hugues Fulchiron (Director of the “Centre de droit de la famille” at the University of Lyon 3 “Jean Moulin”) and Aline Cheynet de Beaupré (Maître de conférences at the University of Orléans).
Link: http://blog.dalloz.fr/blogdalloz/2008/06/le-mariage-et-l.html

]]> By: Gilles Cuniberti http://conflictoflaws.net/2008/french-marriage-annulled-for-lack-of-virginity/comment-page-1/#comment-40872 Gilles Cuniberti Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:10:47 +0000 http://www.conflictoflaws.net/2008/cases/french-marriage-annulled-for-lack-of-virginity/#comment-40872 Your feeling is certainly shared by the vast majority of French women. I am not aware of anybody raising the issue of coercion to the annullement, so my guess is that there was none. Indeed, the French Minister of Justice Rachida Dati (herself the daughter of North African emmigrants) argued that the proceedings were actually protective of the wife, as they were giving her a way out of that family in law. But she was quite isolated on the French scene, and was eventually forced to lodge an appeal against the judgment by President Sarkozy. Your feeling is certainly shared by the vast majority of French women.

I am not aware of anybody raising the issue of coercion to the annullement, so my guess is that there was none. Indeed, the French Minister of Justice Rachida Dati (herself the daughter of North African emmigrants) argued that the proceedings were actually protective of the wife, as they were giving her a way out of that family in law. But she was quite isolated on the French scene, and was eventually forced to lodge an appeal against the judgment by President Sarkozy.

]]> By: Anna Gardella http://conflictoflaws.net/2008/french-marriage-annulled-for-lack-of-virginity/comment-page-1/#comment-40870 Anna Gardella Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:36:34 +0000 http://www.conflictoflaws.net/2008/cases/french-marriage-annulled-for-lack-of-virginity/#comment-40870 This is bad news for the country of Simone de Bauvoir and of many other French intellectuals who fought for women's emancipation. The judgment raises a whole bunch of sensitive issues ranging from diversity integration; equality and pluralism and human rights. Isn't it "ironic" that the "Westners" go around the world to implement self-empowerment programs for women and are unable to hold their own values at home? On what grounds did the court ascertain the wife's consent to divorce? Any doubt about social “coercion”? This is bad news for the country of Simone de Bauvoir and of many other French intellectuals who fought for women’s emancipation. The judgment raises a whole bunch of sensitive issues ranging from diversity integration; equality and pluralism and human rights. Isn’t it “ironic” that the “Westners” go around the world to implement self-empowerment programs for women and are unable to hold their own values at home?
On what grounds did the court ascertain the wife’s consent to divorce? Any doubt about social “coercion”?

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