Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claudine is an impulsive and sensitive student at a middle class girls' school in Burgundy. Too much of an individualist to be popular with her classmates, she is ignored by her father, who lives in his chateau with no other purpose than the breeding of snails. Her only friend is a charming Parisian waif, Mouloud, whom her father picked up in the city one day and brought back with...
...Charles's wife, the Ranee, a daughter of the late Viscount Esher, published her autobiography, Relations and Complications, indiscreetly revealing the details of Sir Charles's courtship, their marital relations. The Ranee, now in Manhattan, cut off from her British income, works for a living at the Chateau Martin Winery (see cut, p. 57), says she will rejoin the Raja "after...
Died. The Marquis de Rochambeau, 75, a vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution, direct descendant of the general whom Louis XVI dispatched in 1780 to command the French armies supporting the American Revolution; in his family chateau near Saint-Gaultier, France...
Gaston came into being year and a half ago when Chateau Martin's president, a onetime hosiery man named Martin Lefcort, decided that it would be a good idea to have a Frenchman plug his California wines. The notion was developed by Chateau Martin's advertising agent, Herman C. Morris, whose outfit whipped together a series of chats by a comic Frenchman, who, after a sip of Chateau Martin '39, uniformly wound up: "I go queek get my citizenship papers." This folderol, tried over a few stations, was so successful that Chateau Martin upped its spot announcement...
Confident that it has a gold mine in Gaston, Chateau Martin has introduced a domestic champagne for him to swoon over...