Civil marriage dispensations from 1960 to 1992 .2. Posthumous marriages love or convenience?

In December 1959 amendments to the French Code Civil made it possible to marry one's deceased <<fiance(e)>>. This provision which is specific to French law has generated slightly fewer than 50 requests annually submitted to the President of the French Republic. An examinations of these requests and of the socio-demographic profiles of the petitioners - most commonly women - forms an extension to our study of dispensations based on consanguinity. It also confirms that women's occupational activities strongly influence their negative views of the institution of marriage. The economic aspects involved in any union become apparent irrespective of any attempts mode to highlight the emotional dimension of such petitions.