Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near Fontainebleau, France, onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain saw a chateau for sale at $800,000, opened negotiations for it with an offer...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 21, daughter of King Alfonso XIII; and Don Alvaro Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando of Orleans, 21, son of her father's cousin; at Fontainebleau, France...
Alfonso XIII, King of Nowhere, Duke of Toledo, was comfortably settled in his quarters in Fontainebleau last week. Correspondents who have called him the ablest politician in Spain followed his maneuvres with interest...
...drove to the swanky Hotel Meurice on the Rue de Rivoli where he had reserved an entire floor for his family and his followers at $600 per day. After Paris police warned that they could not protect him adequately in the city, the King moved with his entourage to Fontainebleau, 15 mi. distance, took quarters in the Hotel Savoy. Soon the $20,000 which he had brought with him was nearly exhausted by loans to his companions who, in their haste, had fled Spain penniless. Straightway he began to negotiate loans upon a personal credit estimated...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., officer of the Legion of Honor, made known through the committee which has been restoring Versailles Palace, Rheims Cathedral and Fontainebleau Palace at his expense that no more money would be given for these purposes. The committee's secretary said: "France is now a fortunate country, indeed one of the best off in the world. Furthermore, the most urgent work of restoration has been done...