Word: noblewoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They reveal an astonishing life. A noblewoman of beauty and wealth, Mme. de Sévigné was widowed at 25, when her libertine husband died in a duel over a courtesan. A crush of suitors quickly moved in: Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's ill-fated superintendent of finance; Marshal de Turenne, the outstanding military hero of the era; Prince Armand de Bourbon, a member of the royal family. The widow refused them all. Her deepest affections were held in reserve for her daughter. The occasion for most of the Sévigné letters was the daughter...
...never got to Panov's dressing room. Colleagues missed her when the company began dancing the ballet Miss Julie, in which a noblewoman (danced by Panov's wife Galina) seduces a servant and then, with his help, kills herself. The next morning, police found Helen Hagnes. She had been stripped naked, bound and gagged, and hurled 70 ft. from the Met's roof to her death in an air shaft...