Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nancy Mitford's favorite characters have the candor and abruptness of people well into their third or fourth glass of champagne. The hero of The Blessing, Airman Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, of the Free French, is clearly one of Novelist Mitford's favorites. He is, in fact, a woman's dream come true: handsome, rich, brave as a lion, bewitching as a magician. It is thus a serious tactical error when the unimaginative Hughie Palgrave invites Charles-Edouard to look up his fiancée, Grace, in London...
...EDOUARD HERRIOT, 79, leader of the French Radical Socialists, president of the last National Assembly and eternal mayor of Lyon, who works 20 hours a day (he says...
...Other familiar French figures to whom the day brought victory: able Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (MRP); Former Premier Georges Bidault (MRP); Minister of National Defense Jules Moch (Socialist). Also elected were two strays from France's darkest days: Munich-going Edouard Daladier (Radical) and Paul Reynaud (Independent), Premier at the time of the fall of France...
...courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that Ruby alone of her indolent set has salvaged something by helping to set her daughter right. But this implication is not likely to strike anyone very forcefully amid the mountains of irrelevant society chatter which Novelist Bagnold...