The story of a hasty marriage in Mongolia has just been told before the Ist Chamber of the Seine Tribunal.
In 1904, Comte Jacques de Lesdain, who was attached to the French' Consulate-General Shangha set out an a journey through Tibet and Mongolia. While in the latter country he encountered Miss Carmen Beley, daughter of an American railroad director. They fell in love and agreed to marry at once, and the ceremony was performed at Chabanor by two Belgian raissionaries, Tt seems to have ocurred.to the lady that the legality of the union might be questioned; and, as soon as she arrived at Shanghai from the interior, she caused the marriage to be recorded at the French Consulate-General 'As her husband was attached to that institution, it may fairly be presumed that he, too, considered mself married,' Returning to France with her husband, the lady notified the union to the French civil authority at Dunkirk; but, a: Juve laughs not only at locksmiths dat at lawyers, she assumed tha' the two notifications were sufficient.
She did not know that, up to an age w appears remarkably mature in American eyes, a French tien cannot legally marry ext obtaining the consent of parents or at least notifying thera of ion to commit matr many giving them time to dis from the fatal step.
gars later, Comte Jneques de Lesdain, desiring to free himself, took proceedings for nullity of lage, on the ground that no was given, that the of his parents was no! obtained, and that the missionaries lad no authority to celebrate marriages.
The court held that these loge!
arguments were sound, and granted 12 nullity decree asked for.
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