mariage de convenance

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Our system is, in fact, gradually becoming a clumsy compromise between the mariage de convenance and the mariage d'amour, with most of the disadvantages, and very few of the advantages, of either.

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert

It was not a mariage de convenance; the young people had chosen freely.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

"And every one will call it a mariage de convenance!"

From The Swindler and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

I shuddered at the idea of a mere mariage de convenance.

From Glories of Spain by Wood, Charles W. (William)

It won't be like an ordinary marriage, a young married couple and so on, nor a mariage de convenance, either, in the ordinary sense.

From Love's Shadow by Leverson, Ada