Word: chambrun
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Died. Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, 89, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de La Fayette; of a heart ailment; in Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime...
Died. Count Charles de Chambrun, 77, U.S.-born great-great-grandson of Lafayette (and thus an honorary U.S. citizen), longtime (1901-36) French career diplomat; of a kidney disease; in Paris. As Ambassador to Rome during the '30s, he became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that he had ruined her romance...
...Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War, by Marquis Adolphe de Chambrun. The impact of Lincoln on a sophisticated French diplomat, married to Lafayette's granddaughter, who was sent to Washington late in 1864; chiefly interesting for such minor sidelights as Vice President Andrew Johnson, a generally abstemious man, turning up in his cups (too much brandy) at Lincoln's second inaugural. ¶The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, a nine-volume key to the current Lincoln boom scheduled for publication next February, which will contain 99% of all known Lincoln material, sell for $115 (prepublication price...