Word: suzerain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prince of Andorra is the President of France, who claims that title as the successor of its original holder, French King Henry IV. The Republican government is administered by a locally elected "Council of 24." The Spanish Bishop of the See of Durgel is by medieval right a "Suzerain of Andorra...
...humble hillmen were Andorrans with a grievance. Andorra is a tiny, ancient principality between France and Spain of which the two "Suzerains and Princes" are the Bishop of Urgel, (Spain) and the President of France. Although M. le President must often carelessly forget that he is a "Suzerain," it was as Prince of Andorra and successor to the authority of the Kings of France, that Gaston Doumergue received the hillmen last week...
Paternally he listened while they explained that the Bishop of Urgel, his co-Suzerain, has recently appointed not Andorrans but Spaniards to carry the Andorra mails. Here was surely an abuse that stank to Heaven! Would not good Prince Gaston move the hard heart of the haughty Prince-Bishop...
...Winnie" Recharts His Hectic Course as Suzerain of the Seas...