Word: dreux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour of the French provinces was a disaster from the start. In Maubeuge. she lost her way among the lyrics of her songs and collapsed sobbing against the piano. At Le Mans, rumors spread that she had to be taken home in an ambulance. By the time she reached Dreux she was in a limbo between sleeping and waking-taking tranquilizers and sleeping pills for some semblance of rest, taking stimulants to shock her back into the raucous nightclub world that was her life. Her manager begged her not to go on; her musicians refused to accompany...
...Count of Paris, pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and the Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg, 22, were married before 150 other crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe's dwindling but still ornamental nobility. As the elegant 50-car procession wound through the streets of Dreux in one of the most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece, Prince Jean of Luxembourg, Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, ex-King Umberto of Italy and Europe's two other...
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