French Villagers Make Demonstration Against Newly-Wed Couple
LONDON, Dec. 13 (Recd. 6pm).— The wedding night for Jean Tellier and his blonde farmer’s daughter was the noisest ever known in the Picardy village of Beaucourt Sur Ancre, says the “Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent. The trouble was Jean sidestepped the ancient village custom of asking the principal residents in to drink the bride s health. As a result 30 of the village’s 90 people surrounded his house on his wedding night. They sang rude songs, banged tins, and shouted. As is customary in France, the religious part of the wedding was held next day—after the civil ceremony Jean and his bride found the church porch and interior festooned with rabbitskins, carrots, torn trousers, skirts and weeds. The bellringers found the bellropes cut. Jean has sued the leaders of the demonstrations for £l2O damages. Two of the defendants are Beaucourt's Mayor and his son.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 14 December 1949, Page 5
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