Word: marquisate
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The 38 Immortals of the sedate Académie Française recently received an intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark...
Died. General Alfredo Kindelán y Duary, 83, chief of General Francisco Franco's rebel air force during the Spanish Civil War, a Cuban-born marquis who as a young man was an avid balloonist fired up by the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, became...
Patriotism has long existed, either as applied to a locality or as extended to an empire. But the fusion of patriotism with nationality and the predominance of national patriotism over all other human loyalties-which is nationalism-is modern, very modern." The revolutions in America and France established the principle...
Probably no Frenchman has worked harder for Christian unity than Pastor Marc Boegner, 81, head of the Protestant Federation of France until he retired in 1961. Last week Dr. Boegner was elected to the French Academy, narrowly edging Roman Catholic Historian Marquis Albert de Luppé in the voting. The...
The manager hates to tell him, and not only because Mountain is a big, dumb sweetheart of a guy who looks up to the older man like he was maybe the Marquis of Queensberry. No, what is really eating the manager is the thought of all that geetus he owes...