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And mademoiselle isn’t really used seriously for grownup women anyway, even should you did look younger. Madame is not like being called ma’am in USA. On high of that, while some traditions, like utilizing the word mademoiselle, have remained, others, like the thought of marriage as sacred or socially encouraged, haven’t.

French Sex Vocabulary and Expressions

Thanks for the informative article. I by no means knew that “mademoiselle” was so controversial. At least it’s better than the time period “spinster” for unmarried women as used by the American legal system , though for all I know that will have changed in recent years.

Is mademoiselle used in different French-talking countries?

Essentially, the title Mademoiselle forced women to broadcast their age and/or marital standing, one thing Frenchmen did not need to do – and in modern-day France, this standing wasn’t at all times even precisely correct. Nearly 200 years later, in the early 1970’s, French feminists started to push, either for ladies to be able to select to be referred to as Madame or Mademoiselle, or, merely, to cease utilizing mademoiselle altogether.

Madame in the sheets (of paper), mademoiselle on the streets

The half about the titles during the French revolution fascinated me as a result of “Citizen Genet” who was the French Ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution but was later given asylum in the US is buried in my hometown. I’m all for the change. I still recall a narrative from a French female pal back in the 70s, who informed me about an worker at a government social-welfare office who took a perverse, moralistic pleasure in trying to humiliate visibly pregnant single women by loudly calling out for them as MADEMOISELLE So-and-So. I don’t know where within the French speaking world you’d seriously be known as mademoiselle. You look in your 30’s or 40’s.