Word: duc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigor with which these nouveau aristocrats are supporting their cause, however, makes up for any lack of ancient prestige: M. Leon Daudet called upon his twenty thousand associates to begin a royalist revolution "tonight, from this moment, from the gate of Paris." Possibly the Duc d'Orleans, nominal King of France, who is now residing in England is not aware of this enthusiasm, for he has not yet crossed the Channel to claim his throne...
...thing upon which French Royalists and Bolsheviki can agree is that France needs a dictator, but neither can agree upon the person. L'Action Française, Paris royalist journal, in advocating the Duc d'Orléans, said: "The example of Italy shows clearly what a real leader can do and what a Parliament cannot do. We ask you to make the Parliament understand that we need a leader, and the leader we need, in the estimation of L'Action Française, must be the hereditary leader, consequently the legitimate heir to the 40 Kings...
...Duc de Broglie was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. The duke has devoted much time to chemical research, but is better known for developing wireless telegraphy in the French Navy and for inventing undersea wireless to submarines. He is also interested in the notorious radio, and, as the despatch said, "radio enthusiasts now have a young and active representative in the Institut de France...
...Sommaripa has enjoyed very extensive association with leaders prominent in Russian political life. A graduate of the Military School of the Grand Duc Constantin and of the college in Kiev, he served in the early years of the war in the Imperial Army both with the General Staff and at the front. In 1916 he was wounded, and taken prisoner by the Germans. After two and one-half years in the prison-camps of Germany, he escaped, joined General Denikin's Government in southern Russia, and acted there as private secretary to the Minister of Railroads and Communications until...
...Duc is popular with almost all Frenchmen, except the Royalists. They are rather divided about him. One group says he has become republicanized; another that he is disqualified for succession to the throne by marrying a commoner; a third that there have been certain amours which are not comme il faut for a royal prince. This party is not reputed to be serious in its contentions. As brother of the Duc d'Orléans he is, of course, heir-apparent to the non-existent French throne. If he tries to sit on this hallucinatory chair, the French will...