Word: chambruns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea of the 23 most influential people in the U.S. was reported by René de Chambrun, who published in This Week a list the President had jotted down for him in 1940. Next-door neighbors on the list: Robert Taft and Henry Wallace. Among the missing: Harry Truman. Final name on the list: Mrs. F.D.R...
Countess Gisèle de Chambrun, Manhattan socialite wife of a great-great-great-grandson of Lafayette, who "bumped" her car into a schoolboy last December, fracturing his legs, arms and skull, went to court to tell (in French) her version of the accident, got off with two $5 fines for "driving with a defective horn" and "failure to give right...
Sheppey (by W. Somerset Maugham; produced by Jacques Chambrun) reached Broadway eleven years after it appeared in London. The last play which Maugham wrote alone is not too shining a valedictory. The hand that wrote this good-by was a little tired, a little cold...
...Count. Laval's politically ambitious daughter Jose, swarthy as her father, became his right-hand woman. They traveled together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
Salient titles: René de Chambrun's De La Lorraine à Washington; Laval, by Henri Torres, a French liberal lawyer who knew the No. 1 French Quisling intimately...