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...arrived in his bright new British Aston-Martin sports car with a squeal of tires and a flourish of gravel, flanked by a pretty blonde wife and a secretary. He wanted to buy a chateau, he said, and the dazzled real-estate agent showed him the historic Chateau de Theillat. The count took one look, declared he would take it, and with an aristocratic flourish wrote out two checks on the spot, one for 35 million francs ($100,000) and another for 25 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Down lor the Count | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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