Women are less likely to seek divorces and marriage annulments. "The nine" also refused to recognize post-conciliar annulments and ordinations. While marriages increased annulments also increased but at a much greater rate. Divorce was not permitted in New France, and annulments were almost impossible to get. Annulments by the ecclesiastical and civil courts are unrelated and are not necessarily mutually endorsed. Felici was known as an opponent of proposals to ease the granting of annulments. Examples include annulments of political sentences, laws obliging removal of monuments and mass street renaming. Details of known annulments and restorations are annotated in the table below.