ROMANTIC CASE.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 240, 17 March 1875, Page 3

ROMANTIC CASE.

A romantic case of true love and its adventures has just come before the Toulouse law courts. M. Henri D’Aurilhon, son of the marquis of that name, fell in love during the campaign of 1870-71 with a charming young lady named Blanche Bouscant, who had caught his eye as his regiment was en route to the held of battle. Returning from the wars, he sought the object of his affections, hoping to be more successful in the held of Cupid than in that of Mars, but he was doomed to another disappointment. The young lady was only the daughter of a tradesman, and the marquise, his mother, refused to give her consent to such a marriage. The lovers, after waiting in vain till the heart of the marquise softened, resolved at last to marry themselves after their own fashion. Attired in full wedding garments, and accompanied by their temoins, they went to church, threw themselves on their knees before the high altar as the priest was celebrating mass, and swore to accept each other as man and wife. This done, they rose and coolly asked the priest to give them a marriage certificate. Heedless to say, the rev gentleman refused, and the “unhappy couple” thereupon left with their friends. However, Henri and Blanche considered themselves legally united, and repaired to the chateau of Sauvcterre, the family residence of the D’Aurilhons. Here M. Henri D’Aurilhon introduced Mdlle. Blanche to the servants as his “wife,” and the nuptial festivities began. The Marquise D’Aurilhon was in the country at the time this romantic drama was being performed, but a faithful domestic at once telegraphed to her, and she arrived in the midst of the wedding dinner. The scene that ensued may be easily imagined. The marquise, highly indignant, drove Mdlle. Blanche out of the house, and forbade her son to call the tradesman’s daughter his wife. But Henri refused to obey his parent, and summoned her to receive the lady in the chateau. The upshot of the matter was that the marquise appealed to the tribunal to protect herself against the young couple, and the court gave her full power to keep Mdlle, Blanche out of the chateau in the event of her son returning to the charge,