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Marriage in France is the institution that allows two people to unite to live together and start a family. [3] Article 143 of the Civil Code of the French (Code civil) governs civil marriage and consecrated the couple by law. Since 1999, it exists with the Rules of Cohabitation (concubinage) and the Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS).
Same-sex marriage has been legal in France since 18 May 2013, [1] making France the thirteenth country in the world and the ninth in Europe to allow same-sex couples to marry. . The legislation applies to metropolitan France as well as to all French overseas departments and territories.
PACS (blue) and marriage (red) in France . According to the 2004 Demographic Report [8] by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies , the number of marriages in France had fallen each year since 2000. 266,000 civil marriages took place in 2004, a decline of 5.9% from 2003.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights in France are some of the most progressive by world standards. [1] [2] Although same-sex sexual activity was a capital crime that often resulted in the death penalty during the Ancien Régime, all sodomy laws were repealed in 1791 during the French Revolution.
The draft bill was submitted to parliament on 7 November 2012, [12] by justice minister, Christiane Taubira.In its explanatory memorandum, the government noted that "marriage is traditionally defined as a formal legal act by which man and woman establish a union and civil law regulates the conditions, effects and dissolution" but that "the idea of opening marriage to same sex couples has risen ...
In 1792, with the French Revolution, religious marriage ceremonies in France were made secondary to civil marriage. Religious ceremonies could still be performed, but only for couples who had already been married in a civil ceremony. Napoleon later spread this custom throughout most of Europe. In present-day France, only civil marriage has ...
"Courts will finally stop interpreting French law through the lens of canon law and imposing on women the obligation to have sexual relations within marriage." France's Ministry for Europe and ...
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