MARRIAGE PROXY.
The first marriage by deputy under the new’ Fiench law, which enables asoldier to wed while still at the front, took place in Paris lately. It was celebrated' very quietly at the Town Hall of the Pantheon, district. The soldier husband was M. Lorin, a Paris solicitor, and the bride Mile,. Martigny and the deputy husband M. Soucke, a friend of the man at the front. The acting Mayor of the district put 1 the question upon which the legality of the ceremony depends to the friend of the husband : “You affirm that you have the legaJl authority of M. Lorin to declare in his name that he consents to take for wife Mile. Martigny ?” The question,was put amid an impressive silence. “Yes,” replied M, Soucke. Then the bride, in a very subdued voice, gave her assent,* and the marriage ceremony was complete.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3981, 14 July 1915, Page 3
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145MARRIAGE PROXY. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3981, 14 July 1915, Page 3
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