In criminal law, ‘parricide’ and ‘infanticide’ are among the aggravating circumstances of a crime. In 2014, feminist associations asked the Delegation for Women’s Rights of the National Assembly to include ‘femicide’ in the French Criminal Code. In the language, the word ‘femicide’ did not enter the Robert until 2015. Dates, definitions, laws, customs and cases are the starting point of this tragiq book...