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...stated in your article that the Duchess of Elchingen, at No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, relict of Michel Ney. who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's ancestor was buried in the U. S. . . . This beautiful lady, who married a blood relation of Marshal Ney, is sadly mistaken. In 1902 Rev. W. A. Sadtier published a book, Under Two Captains in which he gave the biography of a general who fought under Marshal Ney, and later escaped execution, came to America, and was an honored Lutheran minister in the State of Indiana. He stated that Marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...rose-colored marble bearing the names of the hero's descendants also buried there and the dates of his victories. Last week news of the North Carolina venture made Pere-Lachaise keepers scoff anew at a chestnut which had been popping fitfully for years. At No. 20 Rue Quentin-Bauchart, the Duchess of Elchingen, relict of a Michel Ney who died in 1931, vigorously denied that her husband's great ancestor was buried in the U. S. In Charlotte Davidson College librarians fingered the books in which North Carolina's mysterious exile had corrected accounts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: Marshal Up? | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

Last week the eyes of the world's money changers were fixed upon the baroque façade of a four-story building in the Rue de la Vrillière in Paris. There behind the portals of the Bank of France was the solid centre of another of those swirling convulsions in French finance which off and on for years have threatened to dislodge the franc from gold. This time it looked as if the perennial prophets of the franc's doom might at last be right. By ship, plane and train gold was pouring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Francs & Frenchmen | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

When, in Paris, where his deluxe fencing school was on the Rue de Crenelle, swordsman Nadi heard about the fencing boom in the U. S., he pricked up his ears. In addition to promising rich dividends for teaching, it would take him closer to Hollywood. Darkly handsome, 6 ft. tall and so slim (135 Ib.) that he offers opponents a discouragingly narrow target, Swordsman Nadi, who once acted in a French film, has always wanted to go there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tuscan Title | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...program will be: William Austin Three Short Waltzes Austtin Concert Etude MacDowell Adrian J. P. La Rue La Gathedrale Englantine Debussy Four Waltzes Brahms Wentworth J. Tellington Medley of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "Song of Flame", and "Vagabond King" Frederick C. Minckler, Jr. and Charles W. French, Jr. Miscellaneous Jazz Leonard Bernstein Selections from "Rhapsody in Blue" Gershwin Bernard Siegel Little Hammers Couperin Rhapsody in G. Minor Brahms Leonard Bernstein Nocturne in F Minor Chopin Malaguena Lecuona

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMATEUR MUSICALE IN UNION THIS EVENING | 2/5/1936 | See Source »

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