convenance

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It is equally obvious to anyone who knows Philip that he is not the type to submit meekly to the dictates of a dynastic manage de convenance.

From Time Magazine Archive

While in Martinique, Jerome Bonaparte said to a former resident of Baltimore, "Ah! il me faut une mariage de convenance."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

Lady Betty was the widow of a rich gentleman, to whom she had been married but a few years, when death ended what could not have ever been more than a mariage de convenance.

From Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days by Marshall, Emma

It was not a mariage de convenance; the young people had chosen freely.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha

As a Frenchman, I know it scarcely becomes me to throw the first stone at my neighbour for this: France is admittedly a country where mariages de convenance are common.

From Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society by Allyn, Jack