Word: sagan
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Three-quarters of a century ago the itinerant American could spend a summer wandering from tiny principality to tinier duchy, in the district made famous in literature by the late Miss Yonge, and could cross, during his peregrinations, at least half a dozen boundary lines. Such places as Sagan and Liechtenstein were not names, but independencies, each with its own little ruler, here a duke and there a baron, and its own code of customs...
...rapidly disintegrating, and while the 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...
...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...
...American Princess emphatically stated that the title of "Prince" is not to be sold with the property. Charles Maurice Pierre Jason Howard, her son by Prince Helie, will one day become Prince de Sagan, no matter what happens to the property now for sale...