A husband who denounces his wife covers himself with ridicule, a thing that every day is becoming less dangerous in France; but his wife, if he does not supply her with money, declines to the position of a working woman at fifteen sous daily, and even then the virtuous souls have scruples about employing her.
Un mari qui se plaint se couvre de ridicule, chose tous les jours moins dangereuse en France ; mais sa femme, s’il ne lui donne pas d’argent, tombe à l’état d’ouvrière à quinze sols par journée, et encore les bonnes âmes se font-elles un scrupule de l’employer.