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Classic Nudes. In 1925, Guillaume married an industrialist's daughter named Juliette Lacaze, asked her to change her name to Domenica in celebration of the day-Sunday-on which they met. Together they formed a collection based on their strong convictions as to who was and who was not important. Their apartment was filled with Renoir but not Braque. Derain but not Leger, Matisse but not Chagall. All but one of their Picassos were "classic period" nudes...
After Guillaume's death in 1934, Domenica married Jean Walter, whose vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco made him one of France's wealthiest men. He and Domenica fleshed out the collection with some record-breaking purchases that would have met Guillaume's standards...
...downs, but even in the modern age of science, millions of otherwise rational people believe that the motions of the planets have profound control over human affairs. So many people try to read the future from the stars that even the Vatican weekly, Osservatore della Domenica, was moved to warn that serious belief in astrology is a "grave sin." The astrological faithful attach special importance to conjunctions,* which bring two or more planets close together. On the rare occasions when all seven huddle close, astrologers believe (or say they believe) that the end of the world is near...
Police were curious about the fact that several people closely connected with the Lacazes had died suddenly. Domenica's first husband, wealthy Art Collector Paul Guillaume, was first thought to have drowned, and then was said to have died of paratyphoid. Jean Walter, her multimillionaire second husband, met sudden death when he was run down by a passing Citroên after alighting from a car in which sat his wife and Dr. Lacour. Inevitably this curiosity turned to the puzzling business of a famous American in Paris, U.S. Millionairess Margaret Thompson Biddle, who spent a night...
Pain & Paralysis. This beglamoured life ended dramatically on June 8, 1956. With Norwegian Ambassador Rolf Andvord and her good friends Domenica Walter, Jean Lacaze and Dr. Maurice Lacour, Maggie attended a gala opera performance in honor of visiting King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Her close relationship with Domenica and Jean had business as well as social overtones: through her own Newmont Mining Corp., Maggie owned nearly half the stock in Domenica's and Jean's rich Zellidja mines. There were rumors that, dissatisfied with the long-term plans of the Zellidja management, she was planning...