The latest attempt to remove the outmoded rule was in 2003, when a Right-wing MP from President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party wrote to the minister in charge of gender equality. The minister's response was: "Disuse is sometimes more efficient than (state) intervention in adapting the law to changing morays."
人們?cè)辉僭噲D廢除這項(xiàng)法律,但它還是多次逃過劫難。最近一次要廢除這條過時(shí)法規(guī)的努力發(fā)生在2003年。一位議員就廢除該法寫信給負(fù)責(zé)性別平等問題的部長(zhǎng),后者的答復(fù)是:“在使法律適應(yīng)不斷變化的現(xiàn)實(shí)狀況方面,把過時(shí)法律束之高閣有時(shí)比(國(guó)家)干預(yù)更為有效。”