It is the story of a 67-year-old man, a retired cows breeder, swept, ruffled, badly fagured, with coarse features and dubious hygiene, who lives without water or electricity in Puy-Saint-Pierre in the Briançonnais. An old single boy, without sentimental attachment, without social relationship that loves his native land, his mountain. A discreet, marginalized guy, only heir to a land heritage estimated at 1.5 million euros approximately near the knight greenhouse tracks but which accommodates these 36 euros of pension per month.
And it is the story of a 42 -year -old woman, active real estate agent, well -preceded, wearing, distinguished who lives in Paris. A former Masseuser-Stripripper Dancer of Peep Show sentenced for manners, imprisoned at the Fleury-Merogis penitentiary center following an investigation by the brigade of repression of pimping. A mother who was delighted to earn between 7,000 euros and 10,000 euros per month at the height of her activities, owner of a dozen apartments in Île-de-France and on the Côte d'Azur.
An epic, chaotic, media, atypical love story
Nothing predestined these two to meet. Even less to get married. And yet, on September 3, 2011, Marcel Amphoux and Sandrine Devillard said “yes”. Married at first glance, or almost. Against the will of the mayor of Puy-Saint-Pierre, without the blessing of the parish priest but with the downstream of the public prosecutor.
“I met my future husband on a roadside while I was on vacation in Serre Chevalier. Through a common friend, I went to his home to get to know more. I found it endearing, original, funny. At first, it's true, I had pity for Marcel and then it turned into love. We started to flirt, it was a reciprocal sentimental relationship. Marcel wanted to start a family, to have a child. I was not opposed. Me, I wanted to change my life, to settle in the mountains with this kind, pleasant, shy, patient, muscular man “testifies Sandrine Devillard when the gendarmes of the Briançon company question him about the merits of his union with Marcel. An ode to love and the difference that it emerges in the media, on the TV sets and even in a song. A romance that does not convince many people in Puy-Saint-Pierre where La Parisienne arouses more distrust than deference.
“I didn't want to get married, I was forced”
Marcel himself has little illusions about the real intentions of his wife: “I did not want to get married, I was forced” he explains to the Dauphiné Libéré; “When I died, I bequeath my houses to my tenants, nothing to my wife,” he scribbles on a piece of paper in November 2012. Fifteen days later, he died in a car accident while he is Drive by the man who presented her to Sandrine two years earlier. A man prosecuted for manslaughter but ultimately relaxed and washed with any suspicion.
The will and the inheritance, crucial issues
Marcel barely buried at his home in Puy-Saint-Pierre, a legal battle starts between the widow and the occupants of the deceased houses. Almost ten years of procedures aimed at applying or canceling the will, to have the conditions of inheritance analyze, to accuse each other of scams, abuse of weakness, false documents.
-In the fall of 2024, when the conflict seems to be coming to an end in favor of the occupants of Marcel's houses recognized by justice as the only heirs, the administration refuses to deliver the legacy in question. Reason invoked: the deadline is prescribed. According to a recent judgment of the Court of Cassation, the prescription to assert its rights to the inheritance would have been lowered to five years against thirty years earlier. However, Marcel died twelve years ago. “Our last recourse now is to have justice recognize the nullity of marriage and to request, therefore, cancellation. It is like a fight, a moral duty to enforce the honor and the last wishes of a small peasant from the old world, “explains one of the occupants of Marcel's houses.
“I see the desire to dirty my client once again by making her lose her quality as heir. They no longer know what to imagine to have their share. Even if it means staging an backward vision of marriage, “defends Me Lasvergna, the widow's lawyer.
Last twist in a story that does not lack. A hearing is scheduled for February 4 at the judicial court of Grasse in the Alpes-Maritimes, department of residence of Sandrine.
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