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343 - EDIT OF HENRY II (In light of the rise in secret pregnancies and births, and in order to prevent the abandonment and subsequent death of unbaptized infants, King Henry II enacted a law in 1556 stipulating that every three months, in every parish of the Kingdom, the priest was required to read this edict, which remained in force until the Revolution, obligating unmarried women or widows to declare their pregnancies; any unmarried girl or woman who violated this obligation would be punished by banishment and branded with the royal lily with a red-hot iron) / Document (1 p., oblong 8vo) written and signed by the parish priest of Pontailler, dated January 21, 1785: “Pontailler Pregnancy Edict + I, the undersigned, declare that during the year one thousand seven hundred eighty-four, every three months, the edict of Hensi II, which orders women to declare their pregnancies, under penalty of being punished as murderers should they give birth to stillborn children”
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EDIT OF HENRY II (In light of the rise in secret pregnancies and births, and in order to prevent the abandonment and subsequent death of unbaptized infants, King Henry II enacted a law in 1556 stipulating that every three months, in every parish of the Kingdom, the priest was required to read this edict, which remained in force until the Revolution, obligating unmarried women or widows to declare their pregnancies; any unmarried girl or woman who violated this obligation would be punished by banishment and branded with the royal lily with a red-hot iron) / Document (1 p., oblong 8vo) written and signed by the parish priest of Pontailler, dated January 21, 1785: “Pontailler Pregnancy Edict + I, the undersigned, declare that during the year one thousand seven hundred eighty-four, every three months, the edict of Hensi II, which orders women to declare their pregnancies, under penalty of being punished as murderers should they give birth to stillborn children”
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