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Word: cabourg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surprisingly enough, the French secret police partially verified the rumor. General Koutiepoff had been kidnapped in a red taxicab in the Rue Rousselet, they admitted. On the evening of Jan. 26 an unidentified Russian woman at Cabourg, tiny Norman fishing village, had seen the red taxicab and a mysterious grey limousine draw up by the shore. A man dressed as a gendarme and a woman in a tan coat had stepped out, carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Affaire Koutiepoff | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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