Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1920 — FRENCH WAR HERO MARRIED [ARTICLE]

FRENCH WAR HERO MARRIED

Marshal Petain, Famed as Verdun Defender, Weds Mme. Harden tn Paris. Paris, France, Sept. 16. —Marsha Henri Philippe Petain, commander in chief of French armies In France during the latter years of the great war after his defense of Verdun had made him a national figure, was united In marriage to Mme. Hardon at the City hall of the Seventh ward of Paris, says the Petit Parlsien. Marshal Petain and his bride left for the. Riviera, where the former owns a small estate. The marriage is a realization oi a Hfe-long dream of the marshal, who knew the bride when she was a very young girt, long befdre her first marriage. It is said he always cherished a tender memory of her and hoped that some ’day circumstances would enable him to marry her. The bride, according to the Excelsior, is very wealthy.