Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud, polite disfavor?much as a prize Angora stares at a haughty Pekingese. Last week the French government sent to the U. S. on the maiden voyage of the French line's sumptuous new cabin class liner Lafayette an "official mission," consisting of the Marquis Jacques de Dampierre, the marquise, their son Count Henri de Dampierre and his countess. These personages the government officially called "descendants" of the great French hero of the American Revolution: General the Marquis Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Dumotier de La Fayette...
In Paris, however, the Chambruns were furious. They are blood descendants of the great La Fayette, direct offspring of his daughter Virginie (he named his youngest son after an old comrade in arms "Georges Washington Metier de La Fayette"). On the contrary, not a single drop of ancestor La Fayette...
Genial but punctilious M. le Marquis de Dampierre prepared to be Lion Guest at festivities staged by the Thomas Jeffer son Memorial Foundation. Modest, the marquis would never boast that his family is more ancient than the Chambruns, that he himself is a distinguished authority on economics, that it was...
Best American Biography: $1,000 to Marquis James (The Raven, A Biography of Sam Houston).
May 2-Close of loan exhibition of Marquis de La Fayette mementoes; in Manhattan.