Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time there were worry and shrewd planning at the homes of Engineer Louis Renault?at number 90 of the avenue du Bois-de-Boulogne in Paris and at his chateau de la Batellerie (of the canal boat flotilla) at Herqueville, near Saint-Pierre-du-Vauvray in the department of Eure, both places well known to visiting U. S. industrialists. Gracious Mme. Renault, she who was Mlle. Christiane Boullaire, made her suggestions. Directors of the Societe made theirs...
...avenue at Versailles, along which rumbled once the vast golden coach in which Louis XIV sometimes dined, will be known as "Rue Rockefeller." Members of the Versailles Municipal Council grateful to Mr. John D. Rockefeller for his gift of $1,000,000 (TIME, June 9, 1924) to restore the Chateau of Versailles, decided thus to honor him last week...
Appeal. Since this quite extraordinary man still lives, residing quietly at the Chateau de Choigny near Paris, it was not surprising that the Russian Congress of Emigrés which met at Paris last week should have chosen him as their expatriated Tsar...
They despatched to his Chateau an urgent appeal...
With his "usual gayety" thus doubly fortified, the former Crown Prince early the next morning attired himself in conspicuous English tweeds, went shopping in the village of Doorn, posed amiably for photographers. Returning to his father's chateau, he personally took the wheel of a large touring car, into the tonneau of which climbed Wilhelm and Prince Henry. A limousine driven by the former Prince of Hesse drew up and was entered by the Princess of Hesse (the former Kaiser's sister Margaret) and Hermine...