Cocks & Donkeys

"I admit that my client has certain peculiarities, such as her fondness for gamecocks and for donkeys. ... I admit that when she stays in a hotel she usually engages the room directly below and also the one directly above that which she occupies. . . . But Messieurs! I am far from admitting that the Princess de Broglie is incompetent to administer her great fortune, incompetent to choose the man she loves who in marriage will bring her happiness! I appeal to you as Frenchmen, as men of chivalry and honor. . . ."

Thus spake Henri Torres, attorney for 72-year-old Amedee Princess de Broglie last week, defending her against efforts by her nephews to block her marriage with dissolute, notorious, 41-year-old Prince Luis Fernando de Bourbon of Spain. One of the complainant nephews is his grace the Due de Brissac. The court, after mature reflection, held that "in French law the right to bring such suit as this appertains only to ancestral relatives, not to descendants."

The Princess de Broglie is therefore free to marry whomever she likes but the court, because she is so very eccentric, delayed her nuptials by appointing a committee of physicians to investigate her sanity. Said the aged Princess last week: "I want to spend a few happy years before I die. I want to marry Luis."

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