True Story:
 
In the early 1860's a young Frenchman of Dijon, France, informed his mother and father that he intended to marry a young woman of some standing, a Mademoiselle Louise whose wealthy family owned a château and vineyards.  The young woman's widowed mother dismissed the man as a fortune hunter and not of the proper class to marry her daughter.  Not only was the man humiliated, but in the following months the parents of three other well-off women also turned him down.  His pride badly bruised and about to turn thirty, the man wrote a letter to his mother asking her help to find him a girl from back home...
 
 
"I would be satisfied with a girl with an average dowry," he wrote to his mother, "a face that is kind, someone who is even-tempered and has simple tastes.  Really, what I need is a good housekeeper who won't get on my nerves too much, who will be as faithful as possible, and who will give me fine children.."
 
Wanted:

Female.

Average dowry.

A kind face.

Even-tempered with simple tastes.

A good housekeeper who won't get on my nerves...too much anyway.

"As faithful as possible..."  (Must be a French thing.)

Children would be nice, too... 

On July 8, 1862, Gustave Eiffel married Marguerite Gaudelet, seventeen, whom he had known since childhood.  Theirs proved to be a happy union, blessed over the years with five children.  Gustave Eiffel was the engineer responsible for design and construction of the Eiffel Tower for the 1889 Paris World's Fair.  

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