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De Lavaublanche family, which owned the castles of Grillère and Faye, also owned the land of a small village in the Limousin region of France more then 100 years ago. The village name is Bassat! |
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The De Lavaublanche family, which owned the castles of Grillère and Faye, also owned the land of a small village in the Limousin region of France more then 100 years ago. The village name is Bassat! |
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In one of the most remarkable stories to emerge from WWII,the History Channel revealed how Albert Goering, younger brother of Nazi air marshal Hermann Goering, ran a series of rescue operations inside the Third Reich, saving victims of the tyranny his brother helped create. One of those saved was Albert Benbassat! |
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(1936) takes place in a ghostlike English coastline around the beginning of the 1800s. Daphne du Maurier was inspired to write the best-selling novel after visiting Jamaica Inn that stands to this day half way between Bodmin and Launceston. The suspense novel tells the story of a young woman caught in a conspiracy of treachery, piracy, and murder. The novel was made into a motion picture by Alfred Hitchcock and starred Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton (Jamaica Inn, 1939).
In the novel, Daphen du Maurier mentions a squire from North Hills that owned all the land around Jamaica Inn, his name is Mr. Bassat!
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was born in London into an artistic family with a rich historical background and became famous for her suspense novels. |
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