Word: champin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jonsine da Silva Ramos, a young, perpetually smiling Brazilian, lord of 3,460 acres of rich coffee plantation in his native land. He was locked up in nearby Bayonne's jail, called Villa Chagrin, on charge of murdering his lovely wife, the equally patrician Monique, née Champin...
...begins with Monique Champin's first visit to Biarritz just after the war. She was 16 then, luscious and very fond of the beach. Her family moved in the upper level of France's famous "200." Her father's fortune was solidly founded in Hants Fourneaux, Forges et Aciéries de Pompey (iron & steel works). Her mother Margot, née Pereire, was rated one of the best-dressed women in Paris; after divorcing Champin, Margot had married Edmund Bory, owner of the Colony-Club, a select oasis for select society near the Champs-Elys...
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