A woman has married her dead boyfriend at a ceremony in France after getting permission from President Sarkozy. Karen Jumeaux, 22, made use of an obscure French law to wed fiance Anthony Maillot almost two years after he was killed in a road accident. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
A woman has married her dead boyfriend at a ceremony in France – after getting permission from President Sarkozy. Karen Jumeaux, 22, made use of an obscure French law to wed fiance Anthony Maillot – almost two years after he was killed in a road accident. She wrote to President Nicolas Sarkozy to ask permission for a posthumous wedding, which was granted because she could prove they were already planning to marry. The couple met in 2007 and had a baby boy in 2009, shortly before his death at the age of 20. She married in a white dress and in the presence of family and friends at the town hall ceremony in Dizy-le-Gros, eastern France. She said afterwards: ‘He was my first and only love and we were together for four years. We expected to bring up our son together. I never wanted to do it alone, but fate decided otherwise. Now I am his wife and I will always love him.’ A French legal expert said that if Madame Maillot ever met another man she wanted to marry, she would now need a divorce. He added: ‘But this should be a fairly simply procedure because it will of course be uncontested.’
