"The law does not recognize domestic service" asserted the article XVIII of the Declaration of Human Rights of 1793. This idea was truly revolutionary and brought about a democratic advancement by terminating apparent discrimination against servants. However, the reaction after the 9th Thermidor (the fall of Robespierre) loathed this idea of egalitarianism and made a short end of it. The domestic servants had to stay for a long time outside the public life and remained confined to the private sphere where they were subjected to a kind of capitis diminutio. The author discusses the status of domestic servants in the time of the French revolution and during the 19th Century predominantly regarding equality of all people, as promoted by the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

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URN:NBN:SI:DOC-KAF3OGGZ

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14140241

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Veillon, Didier, Kranjc, Janez (2014). La condition des domestiques. Pravnik, volume 69, issue 11/12, str. 839-857, 881-882. URN:NBN:SI:DOC-KAF3OGGZ from http://www.dlib.si

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Veillon, Didier, Kranjc, Janez. "La condition des domestiques." Pravnik volume 69. issue 11/12 (2014) str. 839-857, 881-882.
<http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:DOC-KAF3OGGZ>

Pravnik
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