The Huguette Clark Estate

[Coito ergo sum]

I was just reading that... I'd be interested in reading the book on her that's coming out this month...

Yeah, me too. I am strangely fascinated.

[Cormac]

Well, it never ceases to amaze how even the most innocuous thread will be hijacked by the "we're better than Merka" thing...

Moreover, to suggest we don't have "roots" here on this side of the pond is to Eurocentrically forget that human civilization existed in the Americas for as long as there was civilization in Europe. It's just that European roots only go back 400-odd years at the best. Other roots are just as deep as those in Europe. (well, perhaps not "just as long" but close enough - thousands of years).

The point I was making had nothing even to do with "roots" as it were. It was a reference to being basically two lifetimes away from the first half of the 19th century, and how difficult that is to grasp. It's interesting to think about, and wonder about, at least to me. It's amazing to contemplate that one might talk to someone whose parent shook hands with, say, Queen Victoria, or Abraham Lincoln, or some such other personage. These folks seem so distant from us that it's hard to comprehend.

It is a fairly bullshit assertion anyway - because, while Europeans have been in Yurop for ages, when you query the age of a given country, the answer might surprise.

Ireland, for example, in its current form came into being, arguably either in 1937 or 1949.

That said, we've been here for a fairly long time, and have been argumentative, friendly, aggressive, big-talkers for all that time.

That Huguette Estate issue sounds like it has the makings of a Dickens novel...

[JimC]

I'm still trying to come to terms with "Huguette"...

Smurfette without the blue?

[Coito ergo sum]

[

That Huguette Estate issue sounds like it has the makings of a Dickens novel...

They have called Huguette Clark the "real Miss Havisham", making just that comparison...

[Audley Strange]

Wikipedia says the last known photo of her was taken in 1930. She was married to a law student in 1928, but the divorced in Reno in 1929. LOL. What the fuck??? They really need to get some details!

She developed a distrust of strangers and even family members, because she thought they were after her money. She preferred to have all her conversations in French, so that others would be less likely to understand what she was saying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguette_Clark

Crazy bitch sounds like a bit like Howard Hughes.