“I was born on July 14 - I evidently stirred up a little revolution.” Born Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont on Bastille day in Paris, 1929, Jacqueline de Ribes made a namesake of herself as an icon of glamour and society. Her father, Jean de Beaumont, comte Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont, was a French aristocrat and her mother was a Hemingway translater. Jacqueline's upbringing, although showered in French wealth and glamour, was shadowed by the hardships of war and the…
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