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Posthumous marriage for civilians originated in the 1950s, when a dam broke and killed 400 people in Fréjus, France, including a man named André Capra, who was engaged to Irène Jodart. Jodart pleaded with French President Charles de Gaulle to let her go along with her marriage plans even though her fiancé had died.
France is one of few countries that cover posthumous marriages in their laws and allow it (Article 171 of French Civil Law). [2] Legal recognition began in 1803 and was intended for war widows. The current legislation was enacted in 1959 following a deadly rupture of the Malpasset Dam, which killed the fiancé of a pregnant woman. This aims to ...
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The event also ushered in the practice of posthumous marriage in France for civilians, as many women who lost their fiancés were granted the right to marry them after death. Some 1959 postage stamps had a flood surcharge imprinted on them, to raise money for flood victims.
Even so, ghost marriages are often stigmatized and surrounded with superstitions. Worldwide, other forms of ghost marriages are also practiced, for example in France since 1959 (see posthumous marriage; compare levirate marriage and ghost marriage in South Sudan).
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Marriage in France is the institution that allows two people to unite to live together and start a family. [3] Article 143 of the Civil Code of the French (Code civil) governs civil marriage and consecrated the couple by law. Since 1999, it exists with the Rules of Cohabitation (concubinage) and the Civil Solidarity Pact (PACS).
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