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In her film “Flashback”, comedian Caroline Vigneaux mocks the laws that have targeted women at different times. His feminist fight is in his personal history that he was born.
She has considered herself a feminist since she was a child. “Since I had the first feelings that I was not allowed to do this or that because of my sex“, clarifies Caroline Vigneaux. For her first film as a director, the former lawyer turned comedian features a character who crosses several eras, meets major figures of feminism and comes up against laws she ignores.
Created in 1800 and repealed … in 2013, Caroline Vigneaux takes the example of a rather surprising law: the law on the wearing of trousers intended for women. To wear pants, you had to have a “cross-dressing authorization“, issued exclusively for medical reasons.”And what is funny is that this authorization was valid, but not everywhere (…) there was a list of exclusions and in particular balls, operas, public meetings, where there was too much strong, and that a woman could not, even with her permission, appear in these places with pants“, develops the director.
Also, this “cross-dressing authorization“was valid for six months:”It was necessary to return to the prefecture to make a new authorization. Medical clearance is required“. In Paris, personalities like Rosa Bonheur or George Sand had this authorization.