Word: duc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ferdinand Francois Philippe Marie Laurent d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier, is brother of Duc d'Orléans, pretender to the throne of France. Nevertheless, the French Republic last week promoted Ferdinand from a chevalier to an officier of the Legion of Honor...
...Duc de Montpensier was a famed traveler before his marriage to Isabella, Vizcondensa de los Antriñes, of the Valdeterrazzo family. His services to France in Africa and the Far East were recognized by the French Government when he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In most of his adventures he was alone and unidentified except for his inseparable and remarkable clothes...
...Duc de Valmont, in Pride, by Thompson Buchanan, is of the latter or " Zem were ze grand old days " variety. His past was bright mauve -his manners impeccable-as Kipling puts it, " He was wild and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate." Moreover, he and the Duchess, ex-Susie Potter of Chicago, had been separated since the latter's accouchement, 20 years ago. She loved him-but he was a roué-oh such a roué!-so she took her millions and their daughter (his little daughtaire 'e 'ad not seen 'ardly...
Well, that was all right, but what did the Duc do but turn up, broke, at the very hotel where everybody else in the cast was stopping, and start earning an honest living there as a waiter under the name of Henri Dupont? And what did little daughter do but feel strangely drawn at once to the elegant waiter who reminded her so of the papa she loved? And then, of course, there were two more acts, all full of complications. The Duc lied about himself like a French gentleman, and said he wasn't the Duc...
...denial was printed by Le Matin of the reported friction existing between President Millerand and Premier Poincare. M. Poincare, in his speech at Bar-le-Duc, spoke of men who had exchanged the Socialist red flag for the French tricolor. It was suggested that he referred to M. Millerand, who started his political career as an extreme Socialist and has gradually become a Republican...