Word: biarritz
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...from the Spanish Court. His wife, who is very beautiful, managed to advertise his wealth ostentatiously, and thereby aroused more jealousy, criticism and suspicion. When the revolution became a fait accompli, Don Alba was in San Sebastian, on the Franco-Spanish border, but he rapidly crossed the frontier to Biarritz in order to avoid arrest. The National Directorate charged him with...
...ludicrous account of the "great French duel," in which he--the second--was the only man injured in thirty years, gives one impression of the French character. A report from Paris that French rugby rules must be revised on account of excessive roughness gives quite another. In the Toulouse-Biarritz match--the semi-finals in the championships--Toulouse lost twelve of its fifteen players, and the Biarritz casualties were eleven...