Grand-duc

The Grand-duc and Grande-duchesse Cyril, with their children, are expected at the Elysée Palace, Cannes, for the winter.

To one side was a small pavilion that would, the backers hoped, eventually house the private art collection of the grand-duc and his wife.

[Louise Lévêque de] Vilmorin covered the Kelly-Grimaldi nuptials in Monaco in 1956, skewering the American guests, whom she stops just short of calling hayseeds, for “thinking they’d been transported to the era of grands-ducs and grands bancos.”

The most important introduction Gontaut made for her was to Grand-Duc and Grande-Duchesse Wladimir of Russia, the GDWs to their intimates.

Liane de Pougy, Emilienne d’Alençon, Cléo de Mérode, Caroline Otéro sablaient le champagne que leur offraient les aristocrates en renom, les grands-ducs, au bar des Folies-Bergère, haut-lieu de l’amour vénal.