Lilith
02-17-2004, 07:19 AM
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NICE, France (Reuters) - A 35-year-old French woman
has married her boyfriend 18 months after he was
killed in a car accident.
Christel Demichel, who wore black, was married Tuesday
under a little-used law in the presence of friends and
relatives at city hall in the southern city of Nice,
local officials said. It would have been her husband
Eric's 30th birthday.
"Eric and I promised when he was alive that we would
get married," she told French television. "Even though
he is dead, I respect the values I shared with him,
especially as his death was not his fault."
Eric Demichel, a policeman, was killed in a
hit-and-run car accident in September 2002. Christel,
who was pregnant at the time, lost her baby in the
same accident.
"I lived a beautiful love story and this wedding
testifies to it," Demichel said.
Posthumous marriage is allowed in France under a law
introduced by former President Charles de Gaulle.
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NICE, France (Reuters) - A 35-year-old French woman
has married her boyfriend 18 months after he was
killed in a car accident.
Christel Demichel, who wore black, was married Tuesday
under a little-used law in the presence of friends and
relatives at city hall in the southern city of Nice,
local officials said. It would have been her husband
Eric's 30th birthday.
"Eric and I promised when he was alive that we would
get married," she told French television. "Even though
he is dead, I respect the values I shared with him,
especially as his death was not his fault."
Eric Demichel, a policeman, was killed in a
hit-and-run car accident in September 2002. Christel,
who was pregnant at the time, lost her baby in the
same accident.
"I lived a beautiful love story and this wedding
testifies to it," Demichel said.
Posthumous marriage is allowed in France under a law
introduced by former President Charles de Gaulle.