| Show FRENCH MARRIAGES Miss Betham Edwards Edward In London Chron Chronicle icle ide It is over a quarter of a century since my very close acquaintance with French Family life Ufe began and I can honestly say that the i 1 e the French marriage seems to me eminently satisfactory satisfactory tory toO Indeed no happier or more comfort comfortable comfortable comfortable able unions have I ever known in our own beloved country countr where love ad admittedly admittedly admittedly and almost universally reigns lord ord of all In the first place under the French system human beings Imperfect at best are saved the bitterness of disH disillusion lusion Whenever ver French marriages are a abased based upon romantic sentiment witness poor disillusion follows It may maybe maybe maybe be urged that the great novelists case is hardly pertinent long years of courtship ending In the wedlock of two elderly elder valetudinarians Balzac at atthe atthe the time of his marriage with his once beautiful was In truth an ut utterly utterly utterly terly broken down man but life had still stilla a very strong hold upon him and we gather that the tile goddess of his dreams his adored countess his star of the north once become Mme Honore Hon re de Balzac proved a terrible disenchantment Be this as a It may there is no doubt that in the logical un unsentimental unsentimental n sentimental French character lies the best guarantee guarante of fireside stability and corn com comfort fort |
