French Woman Marries Dead Boyfriend

In my wedding vows, there was a line that said, "Till Death Do We Part."  Evidently, that line doesn't exist in French vows.  According to The Dailymail , a French woman has married her dead boyfriend after he was killed in a car accident.  She received permission from president Nicolas Sarkozy after she wrote him a letter and proved that they had intended to marry before he died.

Two years after her boyfriend Anthony Maillot was killed in a car accident, Karen Jumeaux married him thanks to an obscure French law which allowed it.

'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.'

So what does she do when she meets someone that she wants to marry (that's alive)? 

According to a French legal expert, she would have to get a divorce before she'd be able to legally remarry.  But he also added that it shouldn't be a difficult process considering it would be an uncontested divorce.

[The Dailymail]
 (Photo courtesy of flickr user Vikki13)