Marriage very typical of the old regime between noble and commoner in which it was prevented that the commoner or any of his sons inherited titles, properties or privileges of the nobleman. What was it like to break the social order! The term morganatic, as the companion our Furoya points out to whom we have missed for some time, derives from the old German morgangeba, morning gift, symbolic gift as a dowry that the husband gave to his lower class wife after the wedding night with which he lost all right to claim property or possessions of the husband. The resignation was extendable to his children.
