Corpse Bride: French woman marries her DEAD boyfriend



President Sarkozy gives blessing for marriage under obscure law

A woman has married her dead boyfriend at a ceremony in France - after getting permission from President Sarkozy.

Karen Jumeaux, 22, made use of an obscure French law to wed fiance Anthony Maillot - almost two years after he was killed in a road accident.

She wrote to President Nicolas Sarkozy to ask permission for a posthumous wedding, which was granted because she could prove they were already planning to marry.

Commitment: Karen Jumeaux and Anthony Maillot share a tender moment. The pair are now married despite the fact that M Maillot died in a road accident

The couple met in 2007 and had a baby boy in 2009, shortly before his death at the age of 20.

She married in a white dress and in the presence of family and friends at the town hall ceremony in Dizy-le-Gros, eastern France, yesterday.



She said afterwards: 'He was my first and only love and we were together for four years.

'We expected to bring up our son together. I never wanted to do it alone, but fate decided otherwise.

'Now I am his wife and I will always love him.'

A French legal expert said that if Madame Maillot ever met another man she wanted to marry, she would now need a divorce.

He added: 'But this should be a fairly simply procedure because it will of course be uncontested.'

In February this year another Frenchwoman, 35-year-old Christelle Demichel, married her dead boyfriend, a former policeman who was killed by a drunk driver in September 2002.

Growing trend: In February this year Christelle Demichel married her boyfriend, a former policeman who was killed by a drunk driver in 2002



