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Old 11-07-2008, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by MAfan View Post
Now she is 43, and had her last son 24 years later her firstborn, born in 1983...So she married at age 17 and had her first child at age 18...Which is the age a woman can marry in France?
The law changed in 2005. Now both women and men must be aged 18 at least (18 is the age of legal majority in France).

Before 2005, men could get married at 18, and women at 15. That would be the case of Angélique de Cossé-Brissac.
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