"In 1929, Monnet fell in love with a married woman, the Istanbul-born daughter of an Italian publisher of a French-language newspaper. In 1935, in an era of difficult divorces, they arranged to converge on Moscow, he from financial consulting in Shanghai, she from her temporary home in Switzerland. There Silvia took out Soviet citizenship and took advantage of the liberal Soviet divorce code to divorce her husband and marry Monnet. They moved to Shanghai, the set up housekeeping in New York...Over the next decade they moved back and forth among New York, Washington, London, Algiers, and Paris".
-All this in addition to helping to start the European Union, and a snappy dresser too.
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