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22 de may. de 2024 · Alfred Duff Cooper con Churchill mirando sobre su hombro, en Ditchley Park, en 1943. / Ditchley Foundation. Entre la selecta galería de grandes hombres ilustres y el inmenso almacén de personajes irrelevantes de la Historia, hay una grieta por la que se cuelan nombres como el de Alfred Duff Cooper. Cooper no fue Churchill, pero podía haberlo ...
16 de jun. de 2011 · Books. Old Men Forget. Duff Cooper. Faber & Faber, Jun 16, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages. Politician, poet and diplomat, Lord Norwich - better known as Duff Cooper - compiled his autobiography with the aid of his detailed and frank diaries. The many entries he quotes in these pages lend immediacy and humour to some of the most ...
Viscount Norwich. Alfred Duff Cooper, 1. Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (* 22. Februar 1890 in London; † 1. Januar 1954 bei Vigo ), war ein britischer Politiker, Diplomat und Autor. Nach ihm wurde der Duff-Cooper-Preis, ein bedeutender britischer Literaturpreis, benannt.
Duff Cooper Faber & Faber , 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 400 pages During his twenty years in the House of Commons, Cooper held the offices of Financial Secretary to the War Office and Treasury, Secretary of State for War, First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Information, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and was the British Ambassador in Paris between 1944 and 1947.
Duff Cooper fell in love with France during his first visit to Paris in 1900 and he remained faithful to her for the rest of his life. The fact that Paris in 1900 was deeply Anglophobic, because of the Boer war, had no effect upon Cooper's feelings for the city. His affection for France was no fair-weather plant.
Hace 2 días · Cooper fue mundano pero no frívolo, pues la frivolidad, hermana pobre de la excentricidad -esta sí aceptada y alentada-, constituye otro pecado mortal en la alta sociedad británica. Duff fue el ...
16 de may. de 2024 · edit. Language. Label. Description. Also known as. English. Duff Cooper. British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author (1890-1954) Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich.
