Adultery is no phenomenon; it is common enough--une affaire de canape...

There must be some curb on women who commit adultery for trinkets, poetry, Apollo, and the muses, etc." But if divorce be allowed for incompatibility of temper you undermine marriage; the fragility of the bond will be apparent the moment the obligation is contracted; "it is just as if a man said to himself, 'I am going to marry until I feel different.'" Nullity of marriage must not be too often allowed; once a marriage is made it is a serious matter to undo it.
"Suppose that, in marrying my cousin just arrived from the Indies, I wed an adventuress.

She bears me children, and I then discover she is not my cousin--is that marriage valid?
Does not public morality demand that it should be so considered?
There has been a mutual exchange of hearts, of transpiration." On the right of children to be supported and fed although of age, he says: "Will you allow a father to drive a girl of fifteen out of his house?
A father worth 60,000 francs a year might say to his son, 'You are stout and fat; go and turn plowman.' The children of a rich father, or of one in good circumstances, are always entitled to the paternal porridge.
Strike out their right to be fed, and you compel children to murder their parents." As to adoption: "You regard this as law-makers and not as statesmen.

It is not a civil contract nor a judicial contract.

The analysis (of the jurist) leads to vicious results.