Word: fontainebleau
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...chapters and over 125 articles. Serviceably bound in red, yellow & purple covers, the 400,000 volumes hurtled down last week somewhat dangerously, but there were no serious casualties. Into the Royal Palace, his official residence for the time being, went Senor Alcala Zamora, preceded by four mace-bearers. In Fontainebleau, ex-King Alfonso XIII spent the day playing golf, turned in a poor card...
Grand Duke Alexander found the Spanish royal family in the Hotel Savoy on the edge of the forest at Fontainebleau. The faithful Duke of Miranda led him first to the salon of ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie who was gracious and more than a little sorry for herself...
...articles from that lank Romanov, the Grand Duke Alexander, who has been earning a precarious living in the U. S. by lecturing ladies' clubs on the Better Life. Filled with journalistic zeal, H. I. H. wrote to his editor and suggested that he might go out to Fontainebleau to talk to Alfonso, might persuade his former Majesty to allow a transcript of that conversation to be published. He did. The first instalment of the transcription is on U. S. newsstands this week...
...House of Bourbon issued this edict: Neither of his daughters may ever marry. Amid tremendous sensation the engagement of the Infanta Beatriz was broken last week. With her own hands she had made most of her wedding gown, was to have been married with semi-royal pomp at Fontainebleau...
...Rockefeller gave $2,600,000 between 1924 and 1927 for the restoration of Versailles, Fontainebleau and Rheims Cathedral...