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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FRENCH WIFE?Dorothy Graham ?Stokes ($2). Victor de Lambesc left his American wife in Touraine while he set off in an airplane for Africa and another woman. On the way, his plane fell and squashed him to death. This left Denise de Lambesc, netted in a foreign tradition, to fashion a slow existence for herself, for her two sons. Faced with the choice of a new husband, she at last declines the proposals of her husband's stepbrother although these are reinforced by the per- suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Denise | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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