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Word: fleur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier of France. Power fit him well, but was ungainly on the Countess de Fortes. She began to fancy herself as a power in the State, and while France's troubles grew graver, her meddling voice grew shriller. She got hysterical when Frenchmen whispered that France's fleur de Us was being crowded by a faded fleur du lit. At Tours and at Bordeaux, she was constantly in Government hair. Then Reynaud, France, and Countess de Portes's hopes for grandeur fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of a Countess | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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