DIVORCES IN FRANCE.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 37, 9 December 1893, Page 3

DIVORCES IN FRANCE.

The first re-marriage under the Naquet diverge law has just taken place in Paris. A year agoM. Aulard, a professor of history at the Sorhonne, was divorced from a charming young wife who had borne him several children, liecently he married the lady a second time at the town hall of Chateu, one of the Parisian suburbs. There are a large number of divorced couples in Prance (writes the Kew York Tribune's Paris correspondent) who take advantage of the fact that the Catholic Church does not recognise divorce to resume relations as husband and wife without goingthrough any legal form, on the ground that having been once

married by the church- they still continue in that'conditioti, notwithstanding’ the decree granted by the civil courts. A peculiar feature in connection with divorces in France is the relatively large number of couples who, after going through the trouble and expenseof securing a judicial dissolution of matrimonial bonds, become reconciled. The reason for this is not difficult to find, and, paradoxical though it may appear, is one of the results of the facility with which divorces are obtained. So long as the matrimonial, bonds were indissoluble married life was made up of mutual concessions and reciprocal forbearance, the parties being aware that they were bound to each other for the remainder of their days. Now, however, they know that freedom may be obtained almost for the asking, and the consequence is that ruptures take place on often the most frivolous pretext and as the result of a momentary fitt of ill-temper.