A TRUE LOVE STORY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1943, 27 March 1875, Page 4

A TRUE LOVE STORY.

A romantic ra9e of true love and its adventures lias just come before the Toulouse law courts. M. Henri D'Aurilhon, son of the marquis of that name, fell in love during the campaign of 1870----71 with a charming young lady named Biuscant, who had caught his py<? as his regiment vras en route to the field of battle. Returning from the wars, he sought the object of his affections, hoping to be more successfuT in the field of Cupid, then in that of Mars, but he was doomed to another disappointment. The young lady was only the daughter of a tradesman, and the marquise, his mother, refused to give her consent to such n marriage. Ihe lovers, after waiting in rain till the heart of the marquise softened, resolred at last to marry themselves after their own fashion. Attired in full ■ wedding garments, and accomp'lifed. by their temainsi -they went to church, threw themselves on their knees bpfore the high altar as the priest was celebrating mass, and swore to accept each other as man and wife. This done, they rose and coolly asked the priest to give them a marriage certificate. Needless to say, the Rev. gentleman refused, and the "unhappy couple" thereupon''left with their friends. However, Henri and Blanche considered themselves legally united, and repaired to the chateau of Sauveterre, the family residence of the D'Aufilhons. Here M. Henri D'Aurilhon introduced Mdlle. Blanche to the servants aghfc "wife," and the nuptial festivities began. The Marquise D'Aurilhon was in the country at the time this romantic drama was performed, but a faithful domestic at once telegraphed to her, and she arrived in the midst of the wedding dinner. ; The scene that ensued maybe easily imagined. The marquise, highly indignant, drove Mdlle. Blanche out of the house, and forbade her son to call the tradesman's daughter his wife. But Henri refused to obey his parent, and summoned her to receive the lady in the chateau. The upshot of the matter was that the marquise appealed to the tribunal to protect ..herself against the young couple, and the court gave her full power to keep Mdlle. Blanche out of the chateau in the event of her son returning to the charge.