The Kiss/Court of Love

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 7604

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:

> Penny is looking forward to trying this case in the Court of
> Romantic Justice (There's a fic! What if there was one?)

Marie de Champagne (patronness of Chretien de Troyes, IIRC daughter 
of Henri IV and Catherine de Medici) had a Court of Love in her royal 
court. Insane tho' it sounds, some cases were actually tried.  My 
mother told me of one in which a knight sued a lady to get a court 
order that she must love him. Because when he had asked for her love, 
she told him that she loved another man, but if she ever ceased to 
love that man, then she would love the plaintiff. His argument now 
was that the lady had married her former beloved, and therefore she 
no longer loves him because love is not possible in marriage, and 
therefore she must keep her promise to the plaintiff.