Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage?" says Charles-Edouard. "I will now go and call on your father...
...looked up," Charles-Edouard cheerily explains to Grace soon after, adding: "So perhaps on Wednesday...
...blessing all to herself for seven years, for the gallant Charles-Edouard goes off to the wars, and it is a good year or so after V-E day before he turns up in Britain again. Then he sweeps Grace, little Sigi and Nanny off to a new life in France...
Grace is impressed and reassured when she meets his dowdy, aristocratic aunts. They beg her to sit down and tell them all about recent English literature. The shock comes when Charles-Edouard ushers Grace into Paris society. Titled beauties, their faces "gaily painted with no attempt at simulating nature," flow through the salons in a kaleidoscope of crinolines, jewels, naked shoulders and almost naked bosoms, leaving warm waves of scent behind them...
...still in love with Albertine?" a deaf old crone roars to Charles-Edouard...