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"Lafosse," said the duke, "the bay horses and the carriage without arms."
The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
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"Watching [Isabelle Huppert] in Michael Haneke's Piano Teacher or Private Property, a slow-boiling film from the young Belgian Joachim Lafosse, you wonder how much more she can afford to give, how much she has left," writes Manohla Dargis.
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European-films. net editor Boyd van Hoeij talks with Belgian director Joachim Lafosse.
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This is the essential difference between Lafosse and Plantard: the latter never once attempted to exploit his claim in this way—despite many perfect opportunities.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Lafosse was born in Brussels in 1958 and settled in Scotland in 1976, brandishing documents that he insists establish his claim.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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However, researchers have obtained a statement from the Brussels registrar that the certificate produced by Lafosse was “false” and a denial from the Vatican official, Mgr.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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Lafosse bases his claim that while in exile in Rome in 1784, Charles Edward Stuart obtained papal permission to annul his marriage to Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern and the following year married the Comtesse de Massillon.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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It is from their son Edward, Duke of Albany, that Prince Michael claims descent, but the colossal stumbling block is the fact that neither the annulment nor the second marriage is acknowledged by historians or genealogists, and Lafosse has not produced any evidence to persuade them otherwise.
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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A spokeswoman for the Court of Lord Lyon in Edinburgh, which deals with disputes concerning Scottish titles and heritage, said: “He has produced absolutely no evidence of his claims of his ascent, and until he does I would not recognise him as anything other than Michel Lafosse.”
The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006
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