Word: eon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memories of mustaches and Madeira wine and terrapin Maryland, the unleisurely men of today take only a few minutes off to talk personalities over a hurried meal of Ry-Krisp and iceberg lettuce. There are newsworthy faces at every table. A man speeds up the conversation with his lunch eon partner to get a chance to exchange a word with someone more important who's just shoving back his chair...
...lawmakers of an infirm Third Republic in 1886 were more than usually jittery about the future of popular rule in France. The tubby nephew of Emperor Napoléeon I was spending many an evening plastering Paris with posters denouncing the republican government and advocating a prompt return to empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever...
...cause has been as good as dead for years. By tacit consent of the government itself, 36-year-old Prince Louis Napoleéon, the Bonapartist pretender, had been calmly ignoring the Law of Exile ever since World War II. A well-heeled young businessman, Prince Louis Napoléeon was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his leadership in the French underground during the war. Since then he has spent a good part of every year living in a Paris apartment under the name of Comte de Montford...