As an illustration of the complications vising from divorce which, a8 our cor respondent's letter pointed out yesterday, all Paris is now discussing with passionate fervour, it is interesting to cite " recent case that has much exercise ed the wisdom of French judges. In the year 1897 one, Mme Dubois, eloped to italy with a young man, leaving with her husband a baby boy. A divorce was easily obtained and the Courts awarded to the injured father the sole care of his son. In due course married again, and the took charge of her little and reared him with unusual care and affection. Ten years passed and the ex-Mume. Dabois, now Mme. Durand came back and asked to see her son, a legal right which the Courts could not deny her. Bat the child him-welf refused he wished for no mother but the adopted mother whom he knew.
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