Pascale’s job was to convince the President of France that her’s was a special case and that her love for Michael went beyond the grave. It took four letters to the president and 20 months of waiting, desperately hoping for a positive response. “I wrote with my heart, I went beyond just simple words and it was accepted,” she said. In a few weeks time she will stand alone before the mayor of her town with a photo of her former partner, in what will no doubt be an emotional ceremony. But despite the pain she will finally be able to begin mourning. “I will be his wife, I will carry his name,” she said. The legislation that allows posthumous marriages stems back to when a dam burst in 1959 and killed 420 people in southern France. A pregnant woman who lost her fiancé was so upset President Charles de Gaulle penned a law allowing them to be married. However, the authorities require proof the couple planned to marry before one of them died. Despite the legislation existing for many years, posthumous marriages in France are fairly rare events, with around 50 taking place each year.
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