Word: crussol
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Appointed to succeed the late Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzès, as Wolf Lieutenant for the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France, was Baron Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, head of the Rothschild Bank in France, regent of the Bank of France, president of the Counsel of Administration of the Chemin de fer du Nord...
...Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clementine 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...
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...