Still, the suit would frighten an unprotected girl, and bring about a compromise--" "The law is so rigid as to the rights of natural children," said the newly fledged licentiate, eager to parade his knowledge, "that by the judgment of the court of appeals dated July 7, 1817, a natural child can claim nothing from his natural grandfather, not even a maintenance.
So you see the illegitimate parentage is made retrospective.

The law pursues the natural child even to its legitimate descent, on the ground that benefactions done to grandchildren reach the natural son through that medium.

This is shown by articles 757, 908, and 911 of the civil Code.

The royal court of Paris, by a decision of the 26th of January of last year, cut off a legacy made to the legitimate child of a natural son by his grandfather, who, as grandfather, was as distant to a natural grandson as the doctor, being an uncle, is to Ursula." "All that," said Goupil, "seems to me to relate only to the bequests made by grandfathers to natural descendants.

Ursula is not a blood relation of Doctor Minoret.