Word: zizi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without Mum in a nearby pension on the Marne. For page upon page, everything hums along with the summery warmth of semifantasy. Greengage plums drop from the tree with juicy plops, the barges of the Marne glide noiselessly over the sunny water. The owner of the pension, Mademoiselle Zizi, has a rich and handsome young English lover named Eliot, who takes the children for rides in his blue-and-silver Rolls-Royce. Young Paul, the pension dishwasher, supplies the little Englishmen with assorted forbidden fruits-Gauloise cigarettes, wine dregs left in the glasses after a big luncheon, a rich vocabulary...
...only fly in the ointment is 16-year-old Joss, senior daughter of the Greys. She and Eliot get the trembles whenever they brush shoulders-and Mlle. Zizi, a jealous old gentlewoman of at least 30, is beginning to brandish her falsies. Three-quarters of the way through her bee-loud glade, Author Godden starts dropping her surprises. Eliot, it seems, is no English gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about...
Born. To Renée ("Zizi") Jeanmaire, 30, quicksilvery ballerina and musicomedy star (The Girl in Pink Tights) and Roland Petit, 31, founder-director of the French Ballets de Paris, in which Jeanmaire first starred: their first child, a daughter; in Paris...
Nothing, vowed impetuous young Carol, would induce him to renounce Zizi. But Ferdinand thought he knew a way. The King had his courts declare his son's marriage null, banished Zizi, had the son she had borne declared illegitimate, and cut off Carol's allowance. Outflanked and outmaneuvered, Carol jot ted a note to Zizi protesting his eternal love for her and admitting the parentage of their son; then he dutifully married Princess Helen of Greece...
...banished a final time. In 1947 Carol married Lupescu in Brazilian exile, at the side of what he imagined was her deathbed, only to have Magda recover after the ceremony. Meanwhile, in Paris and in other continental haunts familiar to the semi-destitute outcasts of royalty, forgotten Zizi Lambrino reared her son Mircea and dreamed of the day when he might be declared Carol's rightful heir. Mircea learned artistic bookbinding and made his modest way by peddling his skill among the booksellers along Paris' Quai de la Tournelle. In 1952 Zizi died. A year later, Carol followed...