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Comtesse de Chambrun (née Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, sister of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) was made a member of the French Legion of Honor, in recognition of her researches to explode the theory that Francis Bacon wrote the works of William Shakespeare. For the last 26 years she has been a resident of France and Morocco, where her husband, General le Comte Jacques-Adalbert de Chambrun, has been stationed for eight years...
Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House of Representatives, last week had another distaff knot embroidered into the cloth of his family's fame. He is husband of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, father of Paulina Longworth, brother of Countess Jacques de Chambrun (wife of a French general). Last week, in Paris, the French Academy awarded the Bordin prize to the Countess for her studies of Shakespeare...
Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House: "My nephew, Count René de Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...
...members of the Mission besides M. Caillaux as finally picked were ten: Senators Henry Berenger, Louis Dausset, M. Chapsal, Paul Dupuy* Deputies Lucien Lamoreux, Vincent Auriol, Maurice Bokanowski, Pierre de Chambrun† bankers Joseph Simon and Moreau-Neyret...
...Marquis de Chambrun, descendant of Lafayette, born at Washington, D. C., married to a U. S. girl. He and other descendants of Lafayette are U. S. citizens by act of Congress. His brother Jacques is now a General in the French army in Morocco. His brother Charles is French Minister to Greece...