Chamber of Deputies

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Flora Tristan
After a series of violent arguments and custody battles with her estranged husband, FT petitioned the French Chamber of Deputies to legalise divorce.
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
32, 224
politics Flora Tristan
FT used her husband's trial as a platform for her stand against capital punishment. Shortly before Chazal was sentenced, her petition to abolish the death penalty was brought before the Chamber of Deputies .
Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998.
32, 224
Textual Production Flora Tristan
FT , already a published polemicist, addressed a second political pamphlet, Pétition pour le rétablissement du divorce (Petition for the re-establishment of divorce), to Messieurs les Députés (the French parliament).
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
14, 173
Textual Production Flora Tristan
FT presented a petition against capital punishment, Dieu Franchise Liberté: pétition pour l'abolition de la peine de mort, to the French Chambre des Députés ; it was published that year by Madame Huzard in Paris.
Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992.
172

Timeline

1881
The Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System was established at La Salpêtrière by France's Chamber of Deputies , making neurology a separate discipline; Jean-Martin Charcot was appointed as first Chair in 1882.