Word: fleuriau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatly daring, the English Folk Cookery Association invited French Ambassador Aimé de Fleuriau to their "May Dinner" at Simpson's-in-the-Strand (a studiously English restaurant directed by Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith who also directs numerous de luxe London hotels including Claridge's and the Savoy...
Since most Frenchmen consider most English cooking atrocious, Ambassador de Fleuriau was in a delicate position. What should...
...excellent dinner!" cried Guest de Fleuriau. "In England I prefer to have a typical English dinner rather than an imitation French one! [English laughter] This is just such a dinner, my English friends, as I would have ordered if I could...
...Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon Bruce had to be presented at Court before she could present others, Ambassador Mellon asked Madame Aimé de Fleuriau, wife of the French Ambassador, to pinch...
...Before the week's close every single French delegate had left for Paris with the exception of Ambassador de Fleuriau, who had obvious reasons for staying be hind in his Embassy. In Paris Prime Minister Tardieu said that there was no possibility of his returning to the conference unless Lord there were "new developments." Lord Tyrrell, British Ambassador, called on Foreign Minister Briand, begged him to come back to a moribund parley. The Frenchman had left London with the announcement that he "might come back if there was anything...