Word: magdelon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sisters Cateau and Magdelon de la Louppe were born in the early 16305. They were among the most beautiful women in Europe. Starting as down-at-heel petty noblewomen, both made brilliant marriages, both took many lovers, both were involved in flamboyant scandals, both faded into lonely piety, and both lived, voraciously, to be 80. Aside from these parallels, their lives differed as sharply as their characters...
...Magdelon used her beauty as a means to pleasure; Cateau used hers as an end in itself. Magdelon fell in love right & left; Cateau, barring her affair with the gold-leaf-like Due de Candale, was virtually incapable of love, even of much pleasure. In middle age Magdelon went for young men as some women go horsy; Cateau settled down to a kindly, lukewarm, almost suburban domesticity with a lover only twelve years her junior...
Shrewd Cateau became one of the richest women in France; feckless Magdelon sank deeper & deeper into debt...
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