People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — French Women Who Wear Trousars. [ARTICLE]

French Women Who Wear Trousars.

For the privilege of wearing trousers the French government charges women a tax of from ten to twelve dollars a year. This by no means gives every woman who is willing to pay the tax a right to wear trousers. The government, instead, confers the right as a tribute to great merit. Trousers are, in fact, a sort of decoration given to women as the ribbon of the legion of honor is given to men. The only women to whom has been granted the right to wear trousers are George Sand, Rosa Bonheur, Mme. Dieulafoy, ths Persian archaeologist; Mme. Foucault, the bearded woman, and two feminine stonecutters, Mme. Fourreau and La Jeannette.