Word: crussol
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Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born...