You have to hand it to the French!

[Jonzjob]

Well you do don't you. I mean they have been amending the Napoleonic laws about inheritance and in 1949 they actually gave women the vote!

Now! Just how far can they go???

Women in Paris finally allowed to wear trousers - Telegraph

Just after we moved over here there was as trike that almost paralised the whole country. They wanted to keep the law that Bony (Bonaparte) made so that they could take retirement at 50! There was no opera in Paris for a few weeks . It was the opera singers biggest strike and I still can't understand just why this planet earth of ours didn't stop rotating

[Bushmiller]

Jonz

That's just brilliant!

"In 1892 and 1909 the rule was amended to allow women to wear trousers, "if the woman is holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse."

I can imagine these very chic women walking around with just a pair of handlebars or perhaps the reins and maybe...... a whip. Imagination in overdrive .

There used to be a bizzarre and equally archaic law in London whereby the taxi cabs had to carry a bale of hay in the boot. A carryover from the days of the horse-drawn hansom cab and it had never been repealed.

Regards
Paul

[tea lady]

[artme]

Crazy bunch the French. The French Academy ( I think ) has been debating the true meaning of the word "blanc"for over 200 years!!!!!

[Jonzjob]

Would that be 'blanc', masculine, or 'blanche', feminine?

That's a very important distinction with a load od situations. For instance La Tour and Le Tour. Get that wrong and instead of being directed to the Eiffel Tower you'll finish up at a bike race