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.
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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
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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
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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
Timeline
1881: The Chair of Diseases of the Nervous System...
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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.
Owen, Alan Robert George. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.-M. Charcot. Garrett Publications, 1971, http://HSS.