Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped at no hotel as other visiting royalties do. (Edward of Wales or Gustav of Sweden would have gone to the Hotel Meuricc. Indian potentates incline to the Ritz.) Accompanied by Crown Princess Juliana, but not by plump Prince Henry, Her Majesty took up brief residence in a chateau outside Paris in the Valley of Chevreuse. She and her daughter had come to Paris as a royal duty: they must inspect the Dutch East Indies exhibit at the French Colonial Exposition (TIME, May 11). Thoroughly last week they did inspect it. Next year or the year after Crown Princess Juliana...
...Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris, last week the Ex-Maharaja of Indore, forced to abdicate by Britain for "immorality" (TIME, March 8, 1926), moved out of his $1,000,000 Chateau Holkar, offered it for sale. With his U. S. wife, former Miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, the Ex-Maharaja will live at a Paris hotel, will continue to give champagne suppers to whites and browns...
Died. Brigadier General Robert Henry Dunlap, 51, of the U. S. Marine Corps, veteran of Spanish-American, Boxer Rebellion, World War battles; in a landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...
...three days rolled down from the Aisne to the Marne and within striking distance of Paris. France was in a panic. General Petain called for U. S. aid. General Pershing rushed the 2nd and 3rd Divisions forward to meet the German onslaught. The 3rd Division met the enemy in Chateau-Thierry (May 31), blocked his advance at the bottom of the bulge southward. The 2nd Division cleared Belleau Wood (June 25). This defensive engagement cost the A. E. F. 9,500 casualties. More than fighting, the U. S. contributed new morale to the French troops who turned in their tracks...
Chief excitement was in the little Belgian Château of Steenockerzeel, near Louvain, where Archduke Otto and his indomitable mother, his seven brothers and sisters have been living for over a year. Night before "the birthday every window in the chateau was ablaze with lights for a birthday dinner. Otto himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe. Ex-Empress Zita, in dead black, her only jewelry a large gold cross, sat at his right. With...