Also in the civil registry, many want to kill the father

Mr. D. and Mrs. C. are raising a son together. What is his name? Sounds like the start of a pun, it's actually a recent decision of the Council of State. It must be said that the story is not simple. The child is of an unknown father: his name is C., like his mother. Which one day meets Monsieur D., the wife, and wants him to recognize his son, who therefore takes his surname: little C. becomes little D., like his (adoptive) father. The wedding turns sour and soon the child no longer maintains, with the man whose name he now bears, that

The boy is entrusted to his maternal grandparents, and Messrs D., father and son, will never speak to each other again.

Having reached adulthood, the son asks to use his mother's name again to erase from the civil status this anachronistic reference to a man who has ultimately never exercised his paternity.

Despite the Chancellery's initial refusal, the Council of State finally granted his request ...

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