<P> Posthumous marriage (or necrogamy) is a marriage in which one of the participating members is deceased . It is legal in France and similar forms are practiced in Sudan and China . Since World War I, France has had hundreds of requests each year, of which many have been accepted . </P> <P> a few women were married by use of proxy to soldiers that had died weeks earlier . This practice came to be called posthumous marriage . Posthumous marriage for civilians originated in the 1950s, when a dam broke and killed 400 people in Fréjus, France, including a man named André Capra, who was engaged to Iréne Jodart . Jodart pleaded with French President Charles de Gaulle to let her go along with her marriage plans even though her fiancé had died . She had support from the media and within months was allowed to marry her fiancé . It is likely that posthumous marriage (un mariage posthume) was made as an extension to France's proxy marriage . </P>

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