Well, the title can be misleading. Women have been walking around in trousers through the streets of Paris for decades. But they were breaking the law!
Now the French government has finally overturned a 200-year-old ban on women wearing trousers in Paris. The Minister of Women's Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, explained that the law, imposed on November 17, 1800, had in effect already been rescinded because of incompatibility.
According to that law, women needed to have the permission of local police if they wanted to "dress like a man" and wear trousers. The law has been obviously been ignored for decades, but formally it remained on the statute books.
The law was modified twice, in 1892 and 1909, to allow women to wear trousers if they were "holding a bicycle handlebar or the reins of a horse".
So I guess this says "if a law is stupid, just go ahead and break it".
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