Although Bussy denied the charges ( blaming Madame de la Baume ), it was said that he had not spared the reputations of members of the royal family, including Madame and the Queen Mother.

In 1830 the Baume family opened one of the first comptoirs horlogers ( watch shops ) in the Swiss Jura region in the village of Les Bois.

William Baume withdrew from the company in 1935 for health reasons, and Paul Mercier sold his shares in 1937 to the Ponti family, famous jewelers and goldsmiths from northern Italy.

His friends were Henri Poincaré physicist, count Eugéne Aymar de la Baume, Joseph Vallot ( who was the richest man in France ), Gustave Eiffel architect, prince Roland Bonaparte, Camille Chautemps Prime-Minister, a French entrepreneur called Devousoud from Chamonix, Simon Newcomb American astronomer and admiral,

When the Baume company first competed in the Kew Teddington competition in 1885, three of its watches were ranked among the top seven, and the following year, four of them won awards.

In 1919, barely a year after the company was set up, Baume & Mercier movements were awarded the “ Poinçon de Genève ” or Geneva Hallmark, the highest token of fine craftsmanship in watchmaking.

They were Ellen Melville in Grey Lynn, Rosetta Baume in Parnell, and Mrs Aileen Cooke in Thames.

The king, angry at the report, was momentarily appeased when Bussy showed him the original manuscript to disprove the scandal, but a closed-door meeting ( most likely with Madame de la Baume ) sealed Bussy's fate.

By 1876, when the second generation took over, “ Frères Baume ” had already acquired a solid international reputation for its simple watches, chronographs and Grand Complication models, including minute repeaters, calendars and tourbillons.

The 1980s witnessed the global success of the Linea ladies ’ model, and in 1988 the destiny of Baume & Mercier took a new turn when the luxury group that would later become Richemont bought up both Piaget and Baume & Mercier.

Fingleton was reluctant to comply, and was reprieved when the editor-in-chief overruled Baume.

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle ( 20 August 1517 – 21 September 1586 ), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe ; " the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century ".

In 1924, Baume & Mercier appeared in the Davoine official watch industry directory, the benchmark register of watchmaking companies, as one of the four Geneva-based manufacturers alongside Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and Haas Neveux.

After the war, Baume & Mercier launched one of its most successful models: the Marquise.

In 1971, Baume & Mercier was one of the first brands to adopt the new electronic tuning-fork movements, forerunners of quartz, in its Tronosonic model.

This represented a genuine return to roots in more than one way: a return to production in the Jura, the cradle of the Baume company ( although the Baume & Mercier headquarters remained in Geneva ), and a return to a production mode known as établissage ( or project management ) and used by the “ Frères Baume ” throughout the 19th century, but combined with a full set of modern advantages.

Phillips, like Raye, had started out as a juvenile performer in her native Britain and got her break on Australian TV as one of the panelists on the popular 1960s talk show Beauty and the Beast, hosted by Eric Baume.

“ Frères Baume ” soon became a major watch company, thanks to the commercial flair and rigorous industrial methods of the two brothers, Louis-Victor and Joseph-Célestin Baume, who strictly followed their motto: “ Accept only perfection.

Despite their very different yet complementary temperaments, the two men, shared the same vision of contemporary watchmaking, and decided to join forces in 1918 to create Baume & Mercier.

These include the neolithic stilt houses on the banks of Lake Neuchâtel, the caves of Abri Baume du Four ( occupied from the Neolithic to the La Tène period ), tumuli of the Hallstatt period in the Vallon de Vers and two celtic villages at Les Buchilles.

Baume watches also set accuracy records in timekeeping competitions, and particularly the timing trials run by Kew Observatory near London.

In 1952, Baume & Mercier acquired a new production facility for its chronographs by buying up the C. H.

" Baume Brothers " branch in London

Alcide Baume was in charge of production in Les Bois, while Arthur Baume was based in London and handled international marketing.

In London, Arthur Baume became a leading figure in the United Kingdom.

A member of the Royal Geographical Society, Arthur Baume was appointed president of the British Horological Institute in London.

From the beginning, the objective of the “ Frères Baume ” company was to make high-quality traditional watches enriched by various technological breakthroughs of the era.

On March 21, 1921, the Department of Trade and Industry of the Republic and Canton of Geneva awarded “ Messrs Baume and Mercier, watchmakers in Geneva ”, a diploma “ certifying that their company ranks first in the number of pieces that received a hallmark at the official government office for voluntary testing of Geneva watches in 1920 .”

Considered since Antiquity to be the “ golden section ” representing perfect proportions, the PHI appeared from then on as the Baume & Mercier logo on all its watch dials.

Baume Brothers rapidly expanded throughout the British Empire, from India through Singapore and Burma to Africa, and even became a pioneer in selling watches in emerging markets such as Australia and New Zealand.

Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.

Yes: though not professional musicians, they were a music-loving family.

Any abilities I may have were achieved in their present shape from experience in sharing in the growth and control of my business, coupled with raising my family.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.

I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

What had once been a widespread family -- at one time, she knew, there were enough Packards to populate an entire county -- had now narrowed down to the two boys, Abel and Mark.

He and Mark were the last of the family, and there lay the Cape Ann property which had seemed to have no end, stretching from horizon to horizon, in those golden days of summer.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

There were umbrella tents, wall tents, cottage tents, station wagon tents, pup tents, Pop tents, Baker tents, tents with exterior frames, camper trailers, travel trailers, and even a few surplus parachutes serving as sunshades over entire family camps.

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

The thing can be made to look like the cluttered attic of a large and vigorous family -- a motley jumble of discarded objects, some outworn and some that were never useful, some once whole and bright but now chipped and tarnished, some odd pieces whose history no one remembers, here and there a gem, everything fascinating because it suggests some part of the human condition -- the whole adding up to nothing more than a glimpse into the disorderly history of the makers and users.

One family bound wounds with bacon or salt pork strips, or, if these were not handy, plain lard.

In 1872 there were known to be twenty-two in Norton County, and one had been in the family for 200 years.

They were not sufficiently challenging however, and she resigned in 1887, to go to Germany with her brother Winslow and his family while he was there on study.

There were no witch burnings here because everyone had a witch in the family.

While neighbor women assumed some of the dead mother's duties, fund-raising events were being planned by a homeowners association and a student council for the hard-hit Henry Kowalski family, 34220 Viceroy.

`` I never knew there were such neighbors and friends around me and my family.

Failure in daily moral and ethical duties to one's family, outrages to community propriety, any departure from rigid standards of moral excellence were offenses against the dead.

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

Lincoln's father-in-law was based in Lexington, Kentucky ; he and others of the Todd family were either slave owners or slave traders.