Foreign News: Premier Duke & Jackson

The Premier Duke of France, 23-year-old Prince Louis de la Trémoïlle, was cremated alive last week in the fiercely blazing ruins of what had been a pleasant Hampshire manor house, "The Heronry."

Splendrous "Sun King" Louis XIV created the de la Trémoïlles hereditary princes and of these Prince Louis was the last. Gay and handsome, he had crossed the channel to hunt with Chicago Harvester Scion Leander James McCormick whose beauteous wife was the Comtesse de Fleurieu. Also at the McCormick's "Heronry" were Captain and Mrs. J. H. B. Rodney, he a younger brother...

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