Word: uz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquise," the charming Marquise de Crussol, Marie Louise Frédérique Jeanne Amélia de Crussol d'Uzés, is the bourgeois-born daughter of one of France's great industrial families, the Béziers. Her father's millions were derived from the tinning of sardines. Precocious as a child and fond of teasing an old Senator, her uncle, to tell her about the politics of the day and the political salons of great French maitresses in the past, Marie Louise acquired by marriage the exalted nobility of the House...
Appointed to succeed the late Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzès, as Wolf Lieutenant for the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France, was Baron Edouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, head of the Rothschild Bank in France, regent of the Bank of France, president of the Counsel of Administration of the Chemin de fer du Nord...