La storiografia in materia di matrimonio romano alla luce della legislazione francese a cavaliere tra Otto- e Novecento

The essay is based on the rediscovery of the text of a lecture given in 1910 by the Latinist René Pichon on Roman religious marriage. The date of this communication is not insignificant since it comes less than twenty years after the reintroduction of divorce in France and in an immediate context of debates around the relaxation of the provisions relating to the matrimonial institution. The speaker, through the presentation of the Roman religious marriage reserved for patricians, aims to praise the sacrament of marriage in contemporary times and to denounce the effects of divorce. The instrumentalization of marriage in a French society still marked by the laws of 1905, however, is not an isolated position and more broadly in a context of renewed tension with Germany.