What does grande-duchesse mean?
Grande-duchesse means A French grand duchess..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A French grand duchess..
The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.
Giving way to the passion of the moment, the Emperor “offers implicitly to the Czar to deliver up Poland to him as the price of a grande-duchesse.” […] [quoting Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, duc de Vicence] Like all the grandes-duchesses she has been well brought up and educated.
Among the guests are Léon Bourgeois, president of the Chamber of Deputies, the Italian, German and Russian ambassadors, comtesse Greffulhe, the grande-duchesse Vladimir with comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné, several comtes, comtesses, ducs and duchesses, Anatole France, Gaston Calmette, the baronne Gustave de Rothschild and Reynaldo Hahn, who sings at the piano when the initial hubbub has died down.
The most important introduction Gontaut made for her was to Grand-Duc and Grande-Duchesse Wladimir of Russia, the GDWs to their intimates.
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Grande-duchesse means A French grand duchess..
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The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.
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