NO MARRIAGES
NAZI OCCUPATION OF FRANCE. One million three hundred thousand Frenchmen are held as prisoners by the Germans. Here is one of the effects:— “In Paris there arc no more marriages. Baptisms have fallen vertically. The matrimonial statistics surpass the most pessimistic forecast. There are district town halls in Paris where, since July last year, there have not been as many as ten marriages (every marriage has to take place in a town hall in France, only the ceremony at the church being optional). In the twentieth ward of Paris, during the last six months of 1939, in spite of the war conditions, there had been 514 marriages. For the same period in 1940, there have been exactly 15.” (Extract from “Le Petit Journal.”)
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 8
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125NO MARRIAGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 8
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