If you read French, you'll know that this is an image of a special authorization by the French police in 1857, allowing a woman named Rosa Bonheur to dress as a man.
Necessary, because at that time it was against the law for a woman to dress as a man in France. True also, in parts of the USA. Sad to say, I am old enough to remember pants not being allowed for girls at my elementary school. Of course, we wore shorts under our dresses to play on the monkey bars.
With that I'll leave you. Next week the story, not of Rosa Bonheur, but a different French woman who was also given permission to wear pants. However, her two novels were ineligible for literary prizes because she was a woman. She was scorned for her ideas about equality in the institution of marriage and the short,
masculine hair cut she wore for most of her adult life.
