Word: limousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes, it is all part of a gigantic Franco-American plot. As the blonde, plump princess has been telling her 22,000 relatives ever since she set up the union in 1957, their common ancestor was one of 13 children of a poor Limousin farmer who fought with the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution and was rewarded by a grateful Continental Congress with a huge farm in Vermont. He multiplied his fortune by 1) discovering oil in Vermont, 2) marrying a Creole beauty whose Louisiana father left them his gold mines, and 3) buying Chicago slaughterhouses. After...
Wild as the story may seem, it has survived the earnest attempts of a century of debunking historians, for the Princess Ayoubi is hardly the first to tell it. It has been told and retold in Limousin, where Mallet is as common a surname as is Johnson in Minnesota, since the middle of the 19th century. U.S. Consul Walter Griffin did in fact try to locate the inheritance, called it quits in 1894-and for his pains earned the disapproval of the French National Assembly, which demanded a more thorough investigation. Government opinion, however, seems to have quietly come round...