Word: chambruns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three weeks' detention at Ellis Island at the French Line's expense, Mme Magdeleine La Ferrière ("Magda de Fontages") was ordered deported to France by U. S. District Court Judge Samuel Mandelbaum, who called her Paris coup de pistolet at Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun (TIME, Nov. 22) "an act of baseness, vileness or depravity." Few hours later, free under a $1,000 bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members...
...headlines again for the first time in more than a decade. Occasion was the arrival in New York of Mme Magdeleine La Ferriére ("Magda de Fontanges"), Parisian journalist and actress who last spring pinked France's one-time Ambassador to Italy Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun for breaking up her self-confessed romance with Benito Mussolini (TIME, March...
Propped up in bed in Paris last week was Count Charles de Chambrun, retired French Ambassador to Rome recovering from a pistol shot in the groin, fired by sultry Madeleine de Fontanges who accused him of breaking up her romance with Benito Mussolini (TIME, March 29 et seq.). Cried the Count: "I swear I never in my life occupied myself with Mme de Fontanges' personal affairs...
...Count Jean de Chambrun, nephew of the wounded Count Charles de Chambrun and cousin of Count Rene de Chambrun (see above), ran down and killed one Henri Lorfelin & wife, parents of 19 children, at Dieppe, France...
...Nazi broadcast jazzed up this able Aux Ecoutes scoop to tell Germans that not $790 but $75,000 was given Mile de Fontages-a sum which no statesman in thrifty Europe would ever have to part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared...