Part One: Aqua Tofana: How to Kill Your Husband
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Is the Wife the Property of the Husband?
The wife's legal identity is subsumed by the husband. The Napoleonic Code spread throughout Europe, which made women the property of husbands as it went. Switzerland didn't offer marriage equality until 1988 with like a super narrow vote.
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