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The age of majority at eighteen — The lowering of majority from twenty-one to eighteen, 5 July 1974
The first great law of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing’s term, elected at forty-eight to modernize: majority fell from twenty-one to eighteen — two million four hundred thousand new electors at a stroke, the youth of 68 entering the ballot box six years after the barricades. (Editorial synthesis)
The age of majority at eighteen took place on 5 July 1974. (source: Légifrance)
The age of majority at eighteen took place in Paris. (source: Sénat)
The age of majority at eighteen ended in the age of majority set at eighteen — the age to vote and to sign contracts. (source: Légifrance)
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