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FIRST PART Mr Lecocq, music composer, and Mlle Cinquin, his spouse, had, by a prenuptial
agreement dated 30th March, 1876, adopted the regime of community reduced to
acquests [
communauté réduite aux acquêts].* According to Article 3 of
this agreement, the future husband had included in his contributions in marriage a
certain number of musical works previously composed by him and excluded some
others, but without specifying anything about the musical scores he might compose
in the future. Following the divorce, pronounced in 1897 by the Tribunal of the Seine,
between the man Lecocq and his wife, the wife being to blame,
Maître Rey,
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*) I.e. a marriage settlement whereby only acquests (property acquired after
marriage) accrue to the community.