Word: combier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sumptuous villa on Cap d'Antibes for $850 a month. When the police walked in on them, the count was casually sipping aperitifs with his wife and secretary. The secretary whipped out a gun, but was quickly disarmed. Count Foucou de Gines proved to be one Regis Combier, a 27-year-old sewing-machine salesman and sometime arms smuggler, and the "countess" was his wife. The secretary was a 36-year-old ex-convict named Edouard Rimbaud...
Courtly to the last, "Count" Combier escorted his blonde wife down the flowerbanked path to the police car. "Several times in my life I have tried to be honest, but to tell you the truth, I've always lost money at it," he sighed...
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