Frenchmen
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Frenchman · the French people
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The French people, whose conceptions of happiness and welfare are contrasted with English conceptions and invoked in the discussion of the Ancien Régime.
, that the welfare of France required the establishment of equal civil rights among Frenchmen.
The compulsory division into more or less equal shares of a deceased person’s property among his heirs is a fundamental principle of the law of France, and one which receives the approval of the French people.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The French people, whose national sentiment is discussed in connection with the Salic rule.
They say that the exclusion of women and their issue was the fruit of the intense national spirit of Frenchmen.
And, such being the preconceived notions of Frenchmen, there is no doubt that they were strengthened by the provision of the real Salic law, which said that land—or, as it was once read, Salic land—should descend exclusively to males through males.