Word: dynasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings, by Amy Kelly. A handsome, beguiling biography of the greatest dynast of her day, who married two kings, bore two more (TIME, June...
...young Emperor continued his Chinese lessons, studied Annamite chronicles, browsed through French history, literature and economics. He was especially fond of books on Henry IV, the dynast from Navarre who began the Bourbon rule in France with the cynical remark, "Paris is worth a Mass," and the demagogic slogan, "Every family should have a fowl in the pot on Sunday." Bao Dai put his money in Swiss banks (and thereby saved it from World War II's reverses), collected stamps, practiced tennis with Champion Henri Cochet, learned ping-pong, dressed in tweeds and flannels, vacationed in the Pyrenees, scented...