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Show Excellent Business in Breton Marriage Mart No depression exists in the marriage mar-riage mart of Brittany. After the final count following a three-day marriage festival there, it was discovered dis-covered that a conservative estimate placed the number of ceremonies at 1,400. This made a day's average approximately 40G brides and bridegrooms. bride-grooms. This is the reAlt of a century-old tradition which claims that the best days for getting married are the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Wednes-day following Easter. To comply with this custom in all Breton towns tlie men and maidens, clad in their picturesque costumes, are married each year. Breton bagpipes play the wedding marches and there Is dancing in all the public squares. The vows of fidelity are made in French at the malrie, but In Breton In the churches. |