Word: bauchart
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...stated in your article that the Duchess of Elchingen, at No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, relict of Michel Ney. who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's ancestor was buried in the U. S. . . . This beautiful lady, who married a blood relation of Marshal Ney, is sadly mistaken. In 1902 Rev. W. A. Sadtier published a book, Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal...
...colored marble bearing the names of the hero's descendants also buried there and the dates of his victories. Last week news of the North Carolina venture made Pere-Lachaise keepers scoff anew at a chestnut which had been popping fitfully for years. At No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, the Duchess of Elchingen, relict of a Michel Ney who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's great ancestor was buried in the U. S. In Charlotte Davidson College librarians fingered the books in which North Carolina's mysterious exile had corrected accounts of the life...
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