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In a primary source I am currently reading (a memoir of a British soldier during the Napoleonic wars), the claim is made that Napoleon made it law in the Empire that no women should share the name of his wife. But I cannot find this anywhere. Is this true?

by /u/10z20Luka in /r/AskHistorians

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