EARLY MARRIAGES
FRENCHMAN ’ S ENCOURAGEMENT (Australian and N.Z. Cable i PARIS, March 11. For the purpose of encouraging earlier marriages, M. Cognacq, proprietor of a big departmental store, has given the French Academy securities yielding an income of 1,000,000 francs a year, and has instructed the Academy to award annually 100 prizes of 10,000 francs each to parents under 50 years of age with a minimum of five children. AI. Cognacq, and his wife also presented the Academy three years ago with securities yielding 2,250,000 francs, for 90 annual prizes to parents with a- minimum of nine children. The capital value of the Cognacq gifts totals 61,000,000 francs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1922, Page 5
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