Word: marquisate
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Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...
Americana, wherein retiring Gloria Swanson presents her Marquis, and Lillian Gish (leading a Duell life) her George Jean.
The University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont.) conferred its D.Sc. upon Dr. Charles E. Saunders, originator of Marquis wheat, the standard hardy spring crop of most wheat-growers today.
The Book. What happens aboard a passenger ship when the passengers go ashore? On the vessels to which Engineer-Author McFee was articled, there would be good conversation and perhaps some light drinking in the officers' quarters. If the port were New York, a columnist (Don Marquis?) would come...
On Mar. 14, 1895, Anna became La Comtesse de Castellane by a marriage solemnized in Manhattan by the late Archbishop Corrigan. After three children were born, La Comtesse obtained a civil divorce from Le Comte on grounds of infidelity. In 1908, she married Le Marquis de Talleyrand Perigord, Duc de...