Word: marquisate
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Whether or not they can convince anyone that there were tapes, Pancoast's lawyers will try to make Morgan's relationship with Bloomingdale a central focus of the murder trial. Morgan was 17 and married when she met Bloomingdale in 1970. He paid for her divorce and remained...
Timid, tongue-tied, earnest to a fault, Gilbert de La Fayette did not seem bound for glory. He embarrassed himself on horseback, stumbled on the dance floor. But he had a fine old name, and after his father died when Gilbert was two years old and his mother when he...
Lafayette here becomes a tale of high heroism, not by the marquis but by his quiet, self-effacing wife Adrienne. As relatives were falling to the guillotine all around her and the family's assets were confiscated, she responded with Fayettesque valor. Briefly imprisoned, Adrienne found food and housing...
Returned to France, the marquis remained on the margins of politics until he was 72, when the nation turned to him for leadership after the 1830 rising against Charles X. But Lafayette dithered in restoring order. The Due d'Orléans emerged to become King Louis-Philippe and...
A naive egotist, a vain philanderer, a dilettante who often preferred attention to responsibility-the marquis was hardly the complete hero. But his generosity was immense, and he was admired by one of history's great figures. Lafayette is the tale of a boy who lost his father at...