sentences:  Christine Bard, a professor at the University of Angers, echoed those thoughts, saying that there is an "idealization of seduction "à la Française", and that anti-feminism has become almost part of the national identity" in France.In 1990, following a case where a man had tortured and raped his wife, the Court of Cassation authorized prosecution of spouses for rape or sexual assault.In 1992, the Court of Cassation convicted a man of the rape of his wife, stating that the presumption that spouses have consented to sexual acts that occur within marriage is only valid when the contrary is not proven.