Word: vachot
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...mediums and quacks. She was abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher's assistant from Lyons who claimed to be the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah. Elijah fell from favor, died and his successors were swept out when the Princesses went...
...Boston Theatre, last evening, Her Majesty's Company sang "Les Huguenots." This is the first time this opera has been given in Boston for four years, and the audience was very large. Sig. Ravelli took the part of Raoul and Mlle. Vachot that of Margherita. This evening Bizet's "Carmen" will be given with Sig. Campanini as Don Jose and Mlle. Minnie Hauk as Carmen...
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