The opening in France of civil marriage to couples of the same sex by the law of 17 May 2013 gave rise to passionate debates. Nevertheless, the changes brought do not represent an unprecedented break with the past. The changes can be seen within the context of a certain continuity of evolution of the law. The arrangement of "marriage for all" has not supressed the distinction between the sexes either. The reform redeploys the distinction between the sexes in such a way that relationships of the same sex as well as relationships of the opposite sex are included in marriage and adoption. There will always be married couples of a man and a woman and children adopted having a father and a mother or a father or a mother. Additionally, there will now be married couples of the same sex, and children who will have two fathers or two mothers. In other words "marriage for all" does not suppress but rather makes an addition.