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Wealthy celebs like aviator Charles Lindbergh--who bought Illiec, off France's Brittany coast, in 1938 after his infant son was murdered--have long acquired private islands for safety and privacy. In the 1990s, as the millionaire club became far less exclusive, island purchases grew into a worldwide market, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Georgia, Moeser can sell you 2,600-acre Hampton Island, with a Greek Revival plantation house, for $16 million. And in the frigid waters off Nova Scotia, Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers properties like...
...grandfather of Katharine Robbins Lyman, who married Warren Delano, maternal grandfather of the President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged collaborationist. * In Hollywood, Producer Hunt Stromberg announced plans for a motion picture based on Patton's life, to be called Blood and Guts...
...England, after two weeks of pursuit by British newspapermen, the Lindberghs found peace. They went freely to the homes of friends, found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
...Kent, in a big L-shaped, hard-to-heat house composed of an old barn and four old cottages joined together. They rent the place and three acres of ground from Novelist Victoria Sackville-West, but are giving it up this month to move to the French island of Illiec, off the north coast of Brittany. Mme Carrel, who lives most of the year on the neighboring island of St. Gildas, recently secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion that...
...tiny island of St. Gildas, off the northern coast of Brittany, went Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh once again to visit and collaborate with his great & good friend, Author-Scientist Alexis Carrel (Man, The Unknown). Few days later it became known that Colonel Lindbergh had purchased the nearby island of Illiec, complete with chateau...
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