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There were few couples more chic in all Paris. He was the Baron Robert Augier de Moussac, 48, haughty of glance, with an apartment, where else, on elegant Avenue Foch. She was the American-born Baroness Stephania von Kories zu Goetzen, still stunning at 47, possessed of digs on the Left Bank fully as grand as his. They were seen everywhere, usually together, at Gstaad or Cap d'Antibes in season, and at other times in the toniest watering holes of the capital. Only recently the Paris magazine Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode had ranked them among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Haute Heist | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

...husky U.S. Army officer dressed in civilian clothes headed down the staid Boulevard Emile-Augier on his way to work at the U.S. embassy in Paris. Quietly, a man with a dark complexion and frizzy hair began to follow him. Before Lieut. Colonel Charles Robert Ray, 43, could reach his metallic blue Chevrolet with diplomatic plates, he was killed by a single shot that struck him in the back of the neck. The killer, who was glimpsed by several witnesses, ran down the quiet avenue and disappeared into a crowd of commuters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Murder on Boulevard Emile-Augier | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...Minister of Public Works 1877. In 1887 he stood for the presidency, but was defeated by Sadi Carnot. In 1882 he was elected to the Academic des Sciences and in 1890 he was elected to the Academic Franchise in the room of Emile Augier. In 1915 he was appointed Minister without portfolio in the Briand administration. He wrote many books, the best of which were on such subjects as railway economics, infinitesimal analysis, irrigation and the philosophy of science. That is the outline of his life as a statesman, politician, academician, writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: De Freycinet | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...part of Marguerite Gautler, Mlle. Sorel brings her highly diverting and colorful personality, her strutful walk, her studied poses, her technical certainty, her well-managed voice. More affecting and effective is she in the part of this naughtly lady regenerated by love than as the Dona clorinde of Augier's "L'Aventurere" playing with a deeper sincerity and greater conviction. She was highly amusing in the lighter passages, and once or twice she actually gripped in emotional scenes. And her costumes, which are always half the exhibition when Mlle. Sorel appears, were not only more tasteful and beautiful...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1922 | See Source »

...repertoire of the week is as follows: Augier's "L'Aventuriere" Monday evening and Saturday matinee; Dumas' "Camille", Tuesday and Saturday evenings and Thanksgiving matinee; Moliere's "Le Misanthrope", Wednesday and Thursday evenings; Lavedon's "Le Duel", Wednesday matinee; and Dumas' "Le Demi Monde" Friday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MLLE. SOREL TO ACT IN REPERTOIRE NEXT WEEK | 11/25/1922 | See Source »

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