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Return or abandonment of the towers drop

The lucky residents of the city of Rouen can see, if they wish, at the entrance of the hospital Germont Charles Nicolle, the remains of the "tower drop" which was installed in 1813. This turnstile mechanism, built into the wall, allowing to deposit, anonymously, that the child had been decided to abandon. A U-turn, and it was hoped that it would be a better life on the other side of the wall - which was hardly the case.

drop towers, which remain many traces of in our cities, had reappeared in 1811, made mandatory throughout the territory by an imperial decree of 11 January. They were gradually replaced by the admissions offices of abandoned children, but some remained in service until the early twentieth century. They were officially abolished in France by a Act of June 27, 1904.

The abandonment of the tower entrance Germont.

The Convention had voted yet, June 28, 1793, a text which legalized secret delivery and assured the woman's assistance to the Nation:

"shall be filled by the nation at the expense travail of the mother and all of its needs during the time of his visit which will last until she is fully recovered from her confinement. The secrecy will be preserved inviolate in all that concerns it. "

The infant, he was becoming "children of the fatherland ".

This provision, which remains under French law (article L 222-6 of the Code of Social Action and Families), was very difficult to put into practice. This explains in part the back Imperial, where , will have been noticed, the plight of women in " travail," which cared about the regicide of the Convention is indeed past the door, or turnstile.

For the Napoleonic decree also aimed discourage women from abandoning their children, hoping the effect of staging melodramatic finality of the act of abandonment.

melodramatic scene of abandonment.

of these anonymous women, we know almost nothing.

Only we are the letters and signs left on the recognition of abandoned infants. In 2008, for the exhibition Children of the Secret foundlings of the 17th century to today the Museum of Flaubert and the History of Medicine , Rouen, presented some of these "archives ". In the press kit , you could find this remark:

reading notes and study recognition marks left by parents of infants in swaddling clothes can discuss the causes and circumstances of exposure and raises the question whether the waiver was not sometimes, paradoxically, a gesture of love.

This " paradoxically " placed incision, seems to indicate how difficult it is to address this issue by déprenant representations largely dominant.

Distracted, I almost heard " maternal gesture of love" ...

Example from the same press kit.

However, it must first ask is the right for a woman to take, anonymously, a decision not to become the mother of the child she bore.

French legislation, finally returning to the principles set out in 1793, fully recognizes this right in the procedure known as "anonymous childbirth", including a radical questioning is preparing slowly.

(For clues, we note the publication of the report Barregas , and recent court decisions on " Case Angers .)

It is not impossible that the" unraveling "- as they say - this law, we may consider Christine Delphy, as "one of the few advanced French law" does return the devices drop more functional than the towers. In Germany, where birth does not exist in X, are now located about 80 Babyklappen modernists. The manufacturers of these machines to ensure that babies detectors can alert people in custody following the quarter-hour deposition.

Instructions from one window to babies.