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How Did Napoleon View Women's Roles Within His New Paternalistic

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How did Napoleon view women's roles within his new paternalistic vision of French society?


A) Seeing women as essential members of the nation, he went further than the French revolutionaries and gave women the right to vote and participate in political life.
B) He saw women as the moral backbone of French society, so he instituted mandatory primary and secondary education for girls and improved women's legal rights.
C) Although he reaffirmed the Old Regime's patriarchal control over women, Napoleon believed that women should have free access to education and abortion.
D) He believed women should be restricted to the private sphere of the home; his legal code curtailed women's rights, and he took little interest in girls' education.

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