ABSTRACT
It was a veritable civil war in the Christian world, which soon led to bloodier ones in the political world; and in which those who rose against the doctrine received in Europe believed they were respecting the dogma by attacking the discipline. "Marriage as it existed before the establishment of Christianity, which preceded all positive law, is neither a civil nor a religious act, but a natural one, which attracted the attention of the legislator, and which religion has consecrated". Marriage was not a civil act in the earliest times, in the sense that the interests of the family were defended by public force and ruled by public laws. The principle of the Civil Code's author is erroneous, but consistent, and he was obliged to deny the civil and religious bond of marriage, which he wished to dissolve by civil authority, to the prejudice of religious authority.
