The latest attempt to remove the outmoded rule was in 2003, when a Right-wing MP from President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party wrote to the minister in charge of gender equality. The minister's response was: "Disuse is sometimes more efficient than (state) intervention in adapting the law to changing morays."

　　人们曾一再试图废除这项法律，但它还是多次逃过劫难。最近一次要废除这条过时法规的努力发生在2003年。一位议员就废除该法写信给负责性别平等问题的部长，后者的答复是：“在使法律适应不断变化的现实状况方面，把过时法律束之高阁有时比(国家)干预更为有效。”