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    THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FRANCE. 93

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    regard admit to that women this country in advance is , in of respect all others to the excepting laws and perhaps customs America with . _,

    , , sig We ht as have a crowd never of seen peop in le Prance abusing such and insulting a disgusting a man * and who shameful wished in

    to teach , women watchmaking . There could not be found France did any bod forbi y ddin of workmen women who to work would unless act th as the threw English chin the a-painters necessary

    support , to the g hand which they themselves ey used . away Sucli an act of respect workman tyranny to and . women In injustice the working hig would hest ranks for never money of enter fashion is exactl into , the the y public the mind same op of inion as a French it is with in _,

    England , but in the middle classes it is very common for women to enter tlie large world commercial of business firms and are comp managed ete _^ with by men women . particularly

    Many , carried t printing owns in * on estab Prance b lishments widows you will and whose bookselling find hus one bands or businesses more durin such their . , In establishments lifetime all the large had g

    instructed their y wives in , all the management of their affairs . Por keep instance and ing selling , up Madame the of scientific spe Arthur cial ch books aracter BertrancL , of and , the who has concern continue comp . letel Madam s y the succeeded publishing e Huzard in

    papers larges continues t house connected also of to this print with kin and d the in publish Prance agricul all tural At books interest Nantes , pamp , there and hlet is s hers , a and Madame is news the

    -. of Mallinet the who for er printing more than office twenty and the years bookselling has been business the proprietor created

    "by her newspap husband . These women and many others have so honorably and creditablconducted their affairsthat no man in France would

    fession think of on deny her y ing own the account possibilit . B y efore of a a _^ woman woman beg can inning start as such a printer a

    promonial have a she patent has testimonials of to or go moral permission throug conduct of h ca a pacity to preparation print from si , gned the and : before au it thorities four is necessary this printers is of granted the for , as her also lace she to a ob where testi must tain - p

    she has lived . A woman whether married or single can obtain preven these Several testimonials t her thousands from starting as of easil women y an independent a are man , and loyed business then in . the there . public is nothing offices to of

    bureaux France , particularl de tabac . y S in everal the stamp thousands offices emp are , the emp pos loye t d offices in public , and the

    instruction , from the general inspectress of high schools to the teacher t in he a government small country has parish established . In the hi different h or tr department aining schools s of for France the

    iisliment * instruc i 1 tion and of re teachers main two ; these youn _s s g the g _*—' women board is from in the twelv estab e to

    from sixteen which pounds the a year , and women thi year s are small , sent sum . expense is At often the p end aid by of t the he town two

    yea tabl rs y , they they go receive thro young ug a di ploma examin . ation , and if they pass it credi-

    The Position Of Women In France. 93

    THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FRANCE . 93

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 93, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/21/