, 1865-09-24

maintains There wis no marriage. II the ille-
gitimAcy Of his wife be admitted BY the tribn- |
1als all that. ahe hes left becomes his The |
circumstances brought out At the trial were
built upon the whole story: In the absence
OF the Spanish register the wonld-be heirs |
sought to prove the marriage by facts subse-
qnent to It. n 1s14, alter aharingthe tattgnes
gnve birth to Child, Inscribed in It's certificate
Of birth as Legitimate son OF Damiens de
Noel and Of Colombia Sa1gns, his lawful wIfc,
But the father, absent ut the time, never signed
the act. Exactly the same was the case On
the birth Of the Lulsa dc NOEL whose decease
third child Was born IN 1878, at St. Esprit. He
presented the child To the civil officer, and de-
c1assd 1t his legitimate son. For some years
after that date there Is some difficulty In trac-
Ing the history Of the divided pair: NOEL ab-
to Spain be passed from garrison 10 garrison.
But in 1898 an important event occurred
Madame de NOEL, finding herself in st1aiteued
circumstances, resolved 10 compel her husband
to assist her and her children. Before any
step could be taken, proof Of her marriage
but no record Of Il was to found. What Ii
called an act ofnotoEiety was then drawn up,
in virtue Of which the ecclesiastical tribunal
ordered the marriage Get of Colombia Salgns to-
be inscribed On the civil registers, which was
accordingly done, under the date OF 1915, by
the very priest who had celebrated the mar
the accomplishment of few formatities, to
cite her husband before French tribunal, de-
manding restitution Of fconjugal rights, or else 4
pension for her and her children. The cause
undefended, and II: de NOEL was condemned
to allow the pension; Hereststed the Judge:
ment and the matter was not settled untn
In the interval NJ. de Noel, who had gone to
Spain with the army Of the Duke d'Angou-
leme, had found himself IN the nelghborhood
Of Gcrona, aud there he obtained, from tha
ecclesiastical authorities, m ordinance, annul1-
Noell, on the ground that this lattor had been
obtained by stratageu, obreptitiously, surrep-
titto9sly, and the authorities accordingly Or
dercd the act Of marriage inscribed on the regis
tezs TO be struck out This document In hand,
French tribunal and declared there was no
marriage, that no proof Of one existed, that
COLOMBIA Salgas was not his wifc;@ and, there
fore, that her demand could not be we'll foun-
ded. The tribunal Of Ci1et, BY judgement
given in 1926, declared there was doubt, re-
fused to pronounce on the existence or valid
pension to the child which N. de Noell had
himself declared legitimate when registering
Then litigation ceased between the diseord,
mt couple; they lived apart for the rest o!
their lives; II. de Noell died In 1881 far away
| from his vile, who had come TO Paris to string.
| ele for subsistence. She did not know Of his
death until year Afterwards; his heirs did
not know she was alive, and divided his inher.
ita1ce among them. Madame de Noell died
IN Parts, and her death WAS registered as that
! Of the widow Of II. Damiens Dc NOEL. II. de
Bedout married her daughter, who had always
considered herself legitimate, and was de.
clared such In her marriage certificate: Bu,
when Madame de Bedout lately died, her hus.
band took possession T. Of her property on u.
rails claim II on the contrary ground. Hence
the present lawsuit. The above sketch Of tn,
circumstances Is based on the exposition -ant
pleaGmgs of the counsel for the collatezals
but the tribunal, after hearing Beaout's advo
asSidea N q e. Ss Ssaaea ns's1y T