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...Bridge." Jacqueline Bouvier's birth, on July 28, 1929 in Long Island's Southampton Hospital, was duly recorded in Manhattan society columns. Such notice was only proper: the Bouviers were rich, Republican, Catholic, socially impeccable, and in their own less boisterous fashion, fully as overwhelming as the Kennedys of Massachusetts. No fewer than 24 of Jackie's ancestors came over from France to fight in the American Revolution. All went back to France with Lafayette, but young Michel Bouvier, inspired by his cousin's tales of the new frontier, came to Philadelphia in 1814 and became...
...John Bouvier III was a swarthily handsome stockbroker who cut a dashing figure around New York and, because of his year-round suntan, was known variously as "Black Jack," "the Black Orchid" and "the Sheik." His marriage in East Hampton to Janet Lee, the handsome daughter of an indigo-blueblooded, wealthy (Manhattan real estate, banking) family, was a major event in the 1928 summer season. And just one year later, the Bouvier family doctor was summoned from Manhattan to preside at the birth of Jacqueline...
...even then, Jackie Bouvier seemed somehow removed from her group; her friends noticed it and still recall it. In 1940 her parents were divorced. Two years later, Janet Bouvier married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a Washington broker, but Black Jack, who died in 1957, never remarried. Jackie adored her father, and her eyes still glisten when she speaks of him. "He was a most devastating figure," she says. "At school all my friends adored him, and used to line up to be taken out to dinner when he came...
...Jackie Bouvier, the locale changed after the divorce, but the routine was much the same: Holton-Arms, a blue-chip girls' school in Washington, replaced Chapin, and the gilded summers in East Hampton gave way to the 75-acre waterfront Auchincloss estate in Newport, R.I. If anything, life was more mutedly elegant than before: Merrywood, the Auchincloss chateau in suburban Virginia, is rich with taste and culture: soft-spoken butlers pad across the wine-colored carpets; mellow, morocco-bound classics line the walls; and television is relegated to a tiny recess on one side of the vast fireplace. While...
...Jacqueline Bouvier was presented to society in a glittering affair at Newport's Clambake Club, and Society Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker (Igor Cassini, whose Designing Brother Oleg is now Jackie's exclusive couturier) was moved to announce: "This year, for the first time since our predecessor selected Brenda Frazier as the Queen of Glamour, we are ready to name the No. 1 Deb of the Year and the nine runners-up. Queen Deb of the Year is Jacqueline Bouvier, a regal debutante who has classic features and the daintiness of Dresden porcelain . . . Her family is strictly 'Old Guard...