Word: aiglon
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...owner for 25 years of L'Aiglon restaurant in Manhattan, and one of those beleaguered by the President's threat to crack down on taxdeductible, expense-account lunches, I have a question: Who paid for those Margaritas? I would have been happy...
...lovers, longer runs and growing fame on the stage. She was the queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias, Phèdre in Racine's classic, and she donned trousers as Napoleon's hapless son, the Duc de Reichstadt, in Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon. Kings mooned over her, and audiences wept torrents over her magnificent death scenes...
...Aiglon, the only son of Napoleon and Empress Marie Louise, was the principal martyr of the Bonapartist tradition. The child was only four when his father was sent to St. Helena, but it was already clear, says Stacton, that he was "preternaturally intelligent, as precocious as Macaulay or J. S. Mill." In Austria, however, he was placed with tutors who were instructed to retard his development as much as possible. After a few years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried...
...Louis Napoleon, son of Brother Louis, was the second and last of the Bonaparte emperors (L'Aiglon was proclaimed Emperor in 1815, but he never actually ruled). In Stacton's opinion, he was merely "a paper demagogue" who wrote lively pamphlets and had "the dignity of a toy lion." Carried into office on a flood tide of Bonapartism, he soon made it clear that his resemblance to Napoleon was merely nominal. He became a sort of Gallic Coolidge decorated with Continental charm, and he presided over an era of prosperous inanition that collapsed in the debacle...
...kept up the column after the divorce ("I don't remember whether we got unhitched in 1935 or 1936 and whether it was in Yucatan or Honduras"). But Publisher Wilkerson, who once ran a speakeasy and later the Trocadero nightclub and is now part owner of L'Aiglon and LaRue, is a man of unshakable principle: never knock an advertiser unless he forgets to advertise. When Billy retracted an accurate Gwynn item in 1937 because it offended an advertiser, Edie quit. For 4½ years she went into semiretirement; she "threw hundreds of sensational parties," which usually found...