FRENCH MORALITY, UNDER THE REGULATION SYSTEM. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF MAD’LLE. J. DAUBIÉ. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 8, AND 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. LIVERPOOL: THOMAS BRAKELL, 7, COOK STREET. 1870. PREFACE. Mademoiselle Julie Daubié has published a book in three volumes, entitled _La Femme pauvre au dix-neuvième Siècle_.[1] This work is the result of many years of careful research, accompanied by self-denying labours among the poor, and the outcasts of society. The following pages are a translation of those chapters of her book which bear upon the state of the most unhappy of her countrywomen. In granting permission for the publication of these chapters, Mad’lle Daubié writes as follows:— “PARIS, January 18th, 1870. “Our new Parliament has made an emphatic declaration that it has in view a great moral reform, which fills us with hope. Our eyes are turned towards your Parliament, the wisdom of which is boasted everywhere. It is assuredly not the English Parliament which will make a law to tolerate (that is to say to encourage) prostitution; for such an infamy as this is not yet inscribed in any Code of any civilised or Christian nation. Even in France, prostitution is regulated by an article of the _Penal Code_, which refers this question to the police. Our Civil Code has not yet had the impudence to proclaim the immunities of profligate men to be a civil right; and the expenses of this department are municipal. “But if it be true that provocations in the public thoroughfares are so frequent in the towns of England, and that places of ill fame are not watched, &c., your Parliament has left much undone, and has much to do for the repression of vice. “The principal means for this appear to me to be good laws for the punishment of seduction, measures for making women independent through a sufficiency of wages, the severest prohibition of all provocations in the public way, and the right of the police to enter infamous houses, and to exercise the same powers against the men as against the women who frequent them; (an impartiality exercised in France in gambling houses.)