Most of countries have a patriarcal system of given name to children : it is known as a patrilinear name and patrilinear system. This name will be knowned as "patronymic". In France, the idea, the concept, does not exist in culture and law. But the name of the transmission of the mother name is called "matronymic".
In France patronymic is imposed during the middle age by use and still is by the law now. No care about the fact that at that time, women were treated as domestic animals just (...)