Word: chambruns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Count Louis-Charles Pineton de Chambrun, 59, French Ambassador to Italy, great-great-grandson of Lafayette;* and Princess Marie de Rohan-Chabot Murat, biographer, art patron, brilliant hostess; in Rome...
...Count de Chambrun's brother, Jacques-Adalbert, was born in Washington, married Clara Longworth, sister of the late famed Speaker Nicholas Longworth...
...LOVES I HAVE-Clara Longworth de Chambrun-Lippincott...
...outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary Fitton, maid-of-honor at Elizabeth's court. Countess de Chambrun (Cincinnati-born sister of the late Nicholas Longworth) thinks the Dark Lady was Mistress Nan Davenant, wife of an Oxford innkeeper...
Countess de Chambrun bases her romanticized tale of Shakespeare's career on "two score years of personal research," which includes a knowledge of the latest diggings among Shakespeare's bones. Perhaps Anne Hathaway really was the beautiful and understanding wife Author de Chambrun portrays: perhaps Shakespeare really was mixed up in Papist alarums and Essex' plot; perhaps he went to Scotland and had a fine clack with King James. But Author de Chambrun, though she is a bright lady and writes a conscientious romance, has not the vivifying touch. Readers will get more of an inkling about...