What Is the Idea of Matrimonial Agencies?

He placed a lonely heart ad in 1915 in lay journal newspaper and it said, measure age 45 single with no family savings of 4,000 francs having own home. So for a woman in the middle of World War I with few prospects, this sounds like a fantastic ad to read and then respond to. And because of what we know about him, that it was not a good outcome. They didn't just disappear and start a new life somewhere. He frayed on people according to the police using matrimonial agencies on trams on buses on metro trains and parks and apartments and houses he rented everywhere.