MARRIAGE OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 93, 8 October 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

MARRIAGE OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT.

WEDS AN ENGLISH BRIDE IN LONDON.

"HE WILL YET STARTLE THE WORLD." Louis de Rougemont, whose famous story of riding a turtle startled the world some years ago, has been married in London at a West-end registery office, the bride being Miss Th:rza Cooper. The lady carries on an occupation in Regent Street as a financial agent, under the name of "Cooper", mainly transacting business with clients in London and Paris.

The wedding ceremony, according to one who was present, was quite a "simple affair," no ti iends or relatives being present except a lady and gentleman well known in London society, M. do Rougemont looked well and happy, and bore himself in debonnair fashion. The bride was very charming in a well-cut tailor-made black-and-white check costume, with a black hat and simple black osprey—thoroughly Parisian.

Mine. Louis de Rougemont is a Btrikingly handsome woman, possessed of considerable charm of manner, her petsonalitv being more French than English, although she was born of English parents.

MET IX LONDON

An uncle of the bride —now dead — was at one time a distinguished figure on the English stage, and Madame herself enjoys the reputation of being a clever amateur actress in artistic circles in London and Paris.

When 21 years of age she married i French stockbroker in Paris, who committed suicide. She married again, and divorced her husband some three years ago. And now, just to illustrate the French saying, "Jamais deux sans trois,'' she has married Louis do Rouge, mont.

She met Louis de Rougemont in London for the first time some few months ago in connection with literary work, and found him a delightful "child of nature,"' recounting for hours together ta'es true and marvellous.

Siie has said, when discussing her husband with mutual friends before her marriage, "one cannot be dull in the company of Louis de Rougemont. His imagination is livelier than that of other men. And then, when he presented the truth interestingly, the world called lr'm an outrageous liar.

"I BELIEVE IN HIM

'"One of the things they poured scorn upon him for was his statement that in Australia he saw the sun obscured by gf-eat flocks of wild ducks. Australian friends of mine have (juite recently corroborated this, having seen the phenomenon themselves. And as for his ability to ride turtles, it is one th ; ng tor a young man to do, as he himself aettia'ly did, and quite another thing *0 expect an old man to repeat such youthful exploit-?. " I believe in Louis de Rougemont. He will yet startle the world with the revelation of a great truth, and those who have thrown stones at him will live to see his name vindicated before the world."

He and Mine, de Rougemont are now preparing for a trip to Australia, in connection with "a highly interesting discovery,' - the nature of which, however, is being kept a profound secret. For the present they are quietly resid. ing in London, Monsieur engaging himself in plavwriting and in the study of the occult, in which latter science he h.i< already delved deeply.