[PW] Author query (Rochebriant)

[Dennis Cunniff]

On Oct 4, 2007, at 3:00 PM, "Michele Jack"  
<david.jack1 at btconnect.com> wrote:
 > I looked up the title at the top of Dennis's newspaper article. It  
turns out
 > that the "Marquise de le Fontenoy" was the pseudonym of a syndicated
 > gossip columnist of the time, Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen.

Mrs. Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen was one of a trio of "interesting"  
women who told tall tales about royalty who are memorialized in the  
Mayerling Lloyd-Davis collection of the Library of Congress (LC Call  
Number: Microfilm 2372): "a collection of documents and old newspaper  
clippings obtained by Mr. Edwin W. Davis of Avoca, Iowa, in  
1901-1952, and by Mr. Wildon Lloyd of Washington, D.C., in 1949-1952,  
in their investigations of the spurious stories by Mrs. Marguerite  
Cunliffe-Owen of New-York, known as Marquise de Fontenoy or Countess  
du Planty; by Frau Marie-Louise Brucks-Meyers, known as Countess v.  
Wallersee-Larisch; and by Frau Caroline Kaiser-Kuhnelt of Vienna,  
known as Countess Zanardi-Landi, about their relations with Empress  
Elizabeth of Austria, Kr. Rudolph of Mayerling, and Archduke Johann- 
Salvator of Tuscany. -- [Washington, D.C.] : Microfilming Service,  
Recordak Corp., 1952. -- 1 microfilm reel : ill. ; 35 mm. " <http:// 
www.loc.gov/rr/microform/guide/m.html>

Dennis J. Cunniff.