(Carefully researched by an authority on French history, a...)
Carefully researched by an authority on French history, a dual portrait of two intriguing, flamboyant figures illuminates their personal lives, the social and cultural context in which they lived, and the reversal of roles in their marriage.
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1995
Mrs. Bruce was born in England, the daughter of an American diplomat father and a British mother. Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried, to a British diplomat. As a child, Evangeline Bell lived in Italy, Sweden, France, China, Japan, the Netherlands, Britain and Switzerland. Her early education was all in French, and over the years she became an expert on the French Revolution.
In the 1940s Evangeline took a job in the Office of Strategic Services, located in London, where she married her boss, David Bruce, who would later serve as ambassador to France during the Truman administration, ambassador to Germany under Presi¬dent Eisenhower, and ambassador to England during the Kennedy years.
(Carefully researched by an authority on French history, a...)
1995Intelligent, beautiful, mysterious, ethereal, she was impossibly perfect as an ambassadress, yet would often disappear from her own parties. Charmingly seductive and quietly amusing, she knew exactly what she wanted and achieved it.
Physical Characteristics: She was very beautiful and elegant lady.
Evangeline's husband, David K. E. Bruce, was the United States envoy to France, Germany, Britain, China and NATO before his death in 1977.
They got married in 1946. They had tree children: Alexandra, David, Nicholas. David and Evangeline Bruce's seemingly charmed life crashed in 1975 with the devastating death of the oldest of their three children, Alexandra Bruce Michaelides, known as Sasha.
