On this day, 3 September 1791, post-revolutionary France completed its new penal code. It became the first Western European country to decriminalise homosexuality, as it made no longer made any mention of prohibitions against sodomy in private.
Pictured: King accepting the new constitution https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1202159963302485/?type=3