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And mademoiselle isn’t really used seriously for grownup women anyway, even when you did look younger. Madame isn’t like being known as ma’am in USA. On top of that, while some traditions, like utilizing the phrase mademoiselle, have remained, others, like the thought of marriage as sacred or socially encouraged, have not.

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Essentially, the title Mademoiselle forced women to broadcast their age and/or marital standing, something Frenchmen didn’t have to do – and in fashionable-day France, this status wasn’t always even precisely appropriate. Nearly 200 years later, within the early 1970’s, French feminists began to push, both for ladies to be able to choose to be called Madame or Mademoiselle, or, simply, to cease utilizing mademoiselle altogether.

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The part about the titles during the French revolution interested me as a result of “Citizen Genet” who was the French Ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution however was later given asylum within the US is buried in my hometown. I’m all for the change. I still recall a narrative from a French feminine friend again within the 70s, who informed me about an employee at a government social-welfare office who took a perverse, moralistic pleasure in attempting to humiliate visibly pregnant single women by loudly calling out for them as MADEMOISELLE So-and-So. I don’t know the place in the French speaking world you would significantly be known as mademoiselle. You look in your 30’s or 40’s.

Thanks for the informative article. I by no means knew that “mademoiselle” was so controversial. At least it’s better than the term “spinster” for single women as used by the American authorized system , though for all I know that may have changed lately.