Word: brode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They met in the vast study of Montesquieu at La Brode. Scores of tapers which flickered in the intricately wrought candelabra scarcely brightened the hall, but reflected dimly from the gilt and calf binding which lined the walls, or brought into sharper relief the darkness of the richly ornamented carving on woodwork and wainscote. The men standing about the table by the fire, jesting and arguing noisily, were gentlemen of the age of the sun king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself...