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...Rohan pleaded that the Queen had signed a contract, and that he had been in constant communication with her through an intermediary, the beautiful Countess de la Motte, who was thrown into the Bastille too. Although she protested her innocence, she seemed to be the key to the affair. The cardinal was one of her lovers-and so was almost every other man mentioned in the story except Louis XVI, who had trouble with sex. She had spent her childhood in rags, and at the time of the necklace theft was spending money with wild ostentation. But there were holes...
Rohan was let off with what amounted to a reprimand for believing that the Queen would agree to a midnight rendezvous-the most believable part of the whole charade. Although the countess defended herself spiritedly, biting the turnkey, and seducing (in all probability) the governor of the Bastille, she was found guilty. Her punishment was to be stripped naked in public, beaten with rods, branded on both shoulders and then imprisoned for life. But probably with official connivance, the countess escaped from jail. She traveled to England (where her husband, with or without Rohan's knowledge, seemed to have...
...respectable that it has attracted not only French but wellborn girls of all nationalities. The current Paris roster, she points out, now includes David Niven's twin nieces. Playwright Jean Anouilh's daughter Catherine, Tony Trabert's wife Shawn, along with a princess, a countess, and nieces of Dean Acheson and Paul-Henri Spaak...
Customarily in her gadding about, Britain's Princess Margaret has flown on Royal Air Force planes. But for a brief visit with her mother-in-law, the Countess of Rosse in Ireland, Margaret and Hus band Antony Armstrong-Jones booked to go on an Irish commercial airliner, tourist class. Possible reason for their plebeian style: if they came winging in over Irish ground in a British military aircraft, it might stir up the wrong kind of feelings...
...Ritz-Carlton Hotel one evening last week, Composer Fritz Loewe rippled at the piano while a companion paced and hummed. This was not Lerner and Loewe at work, but Loewe enjoying himself and TIME Senior Editor Henry Grunwald mixing work with some nostalgia. The Loewe-Grunwald repertoire: songs from Countess-Maritza and The Smiling Husband by the late Austrian Librettist, Alfred Grunwald, whom Composer Loewe knew back in Vienna more than 30 years ago, and who was Editor Grunwald's father. To his astonishment, Grunwald found that Loewe remembered more of his father's songs than...