How Did Napoleon View Women's Roles Within His New Paternalistic

question 13

Multiple Choice

How did Napoleon view women's roles within his new paternalistic vision of French society?

• A) Seeing women as essential members of the nation, he went further than the French revolutionaries and gave women the right to vote and participate in political life.
• B) He saw women as the moral backbone of French society, so he instituted mandatory primary and secondary education for girls and improved women's legal rights.
• C) Although he reaffirmed the Old Regime's patriarchal control over women, Napoleon believed that women should have free access to education and abortion.
• D) He believed women should be restricted to the private sphere of the home; his legal code curtailed women's rights, and he took little interest in girls' education.

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