Word: perigord
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...male in this case is the son of one of France's most historic houses−Le Comte Boni de Castel-ane. The female is the daughter of a U. S. stockjobber, the late Jay Gould−the present Anna, Marquise de Talleyrand Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan...
...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 Sagan...
...tourist can still walk ahead, there is a dull sameness of nationality which cannot fail to jar the geographic epicure; the personalities of the small states have been merged with those of their larger neighbors. Just lately, for instance, M. le Prince Helie de Sagan, Duke de Talleyrand-Perigord, having become sensitive, no doubt, to the weight of his increasing years and the accumulations of his unpaid estate taxes, offered for sale his entire holdings to the highest bidder; and now comes the news that the good citizens of Liechtenstein, upon the death of Prince Yohann, which is hourly expected...
...Serene Highness Prince Helie de Sagan, Due de Talleyrand-Perigord, husband of the former Anna Gould* of Manhattan, decided to sell his estate at Sagan in Silesia near the border of Brandenburg and about 100 miles southeast of Berlin. The estate, which was advertised in European papers, comprises Sagan, capital of the "principality," which has a population of 15,000 people, an immense outlying estate upon which 50,000 people live, many castles, a park and other properties. The whole estate is worth considerably more than a million dollars. Prince Helie, who inhabits an aesthetic pink marble house...