NICE, France (Reuters) - A 35-year-old                              French woman has married her boyfriend 18 months after                              he was killed in a car accident.
Christel Demichel, who wore black, was married Tuesday                              under a little-used law in the presence of friends                              and relatives at city hall in the southern city of                              Nice, local officials said. It would have been her                              husband Eric's 30th birthday."Eric and I promised when he was alive that we would get married," she told French television.
"Even though he is dead, I respect the values I shared with him, especially as his death was not his fault."
Eric Demichel, a policeman, was killed in a hit-and-run car accident in September 2002. Christel, who was pregnant at the time, lost her baby in the same accident.
"I lived a beautiful love story and this wedding testifies to it," Demichel said.
Posthumous marriage is allowed in France under a law introduced by former President Charles de Gaulle.
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