Word: chambruns
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...Pierre Laval) was for the Chamber and the Senate to vote themselves out of existence and empower him to write a new Constitution. This they meekly proceeded to do, with only three dissenters in the Chamber, one in the Senate. The one Senate dissenter was the Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, who holds honorary U. S. citizenship (under a Maryland law) by virtue of his direct descent from the Marquis de La Fayette, and whose nephew is Pierre Laval...
Sparkling José Comtesse de Chambrun, daughter of onetime Premier Pierre Laval, was still more typical of the average French wartime wives, thousands of whom have taken over their husbands' businesses as well as their farms. She had taken over her husband's work of running the Paris Information Centre. Young Count René de Chambrun is a lieutenant on the Maginot Line. Like most wealthy Parisiennes. the Comtesse has also enrolled to drive her own sleek Hispano in emergency evacuation, succor wounded in case Paris is bombed...
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...