“The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.”

— Denis Diderot

Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)

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French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713–1784

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