“BEYOND THE PALE.”

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 134, 25 March 1924, Page 5

“BEYOND THE PALE.”

THE CHURCH DOOR, BARRET). SENSATION AT GENERAL’S FUNER A L. (By Electric Caine. —Copyright'. (Anst. and N.Z. Came Association.) Paris, March 23. A company of famous French genera Is, including Marshal «/*offre, Marshal Retain, and Marshal Eavolle, and Generals Desperay, Gourand, and Deheney, who attended the Chapel of Los iuvalidcs for the funeral of General Belle, were shocked to discover the coffin in the courtyard, thrust out/of the church as being ‘•beyond the pale.”

it is revealed that General Belle, who was a devout Roman Catholic, married a divorced Brotestant in 11)20. As the church docs not recognise divorce, the marriage was only civilly celebrated. The Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Dubois, had consented Lo the conduct of thy ceremony in deference to the wishes of the family, but when the circumstances were explained he directed the coffin to be removed and the church doors locked. The funeral ceremony was therefore conducted without a priest.