Word: marquisate
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I didn't want to leave anything out. Like the Hunt Ball. You know the hostess looks like a horse and everyone's hell's boring except me. Being a deb was easy because my daddy's a noble lord. Did I mention that? And I...
An ordinary Frenchman trying to squeeze into the tiny French intellectual elite is like Charles de Gaulle trying to squeeze into the back seat of a baby Renault. Yet room at the top is always open for top graduates of Louis-le-grand, France's most prestigious lycé...
Lafayette focuses on the 19-year-old Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who makes things unpleasant for the British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a...
*Not even the Marquis de Lafayette, the French nobleman who fought beside George Washington, got U.S. citizenship directly. Granted citizenship in the ex-colonies of Maryland and Virginia, the Marquis (and all his male descendants) automatically thereby became a citizen of the Republic in 1788 when the Constitution was ratified...
Povich outdraws such punditical heavyweights as Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop and Marquis Childs on their home grounds, and he does so against formidable odds. In the virile environment of the sport section, his first name can only be a liability. He is the only male ever listed in Who'...