"We simply liked the name," he says. He mentions a distant Gabrielle in the Polignac family (Prince Albert II's paternal grandfather was Pierre de Polignac), but specifies that this reference did ...

As a fireman bounds out of bed and rushes to a fire, so Crown Prince Pierre de Polignac of Monaco bounded into a sleeping car berth at Paris and rushed off to Monte Carlo. In the Principality ...

Polignac divorced Ghislaine in November 1946 and afterwards went to court to try to prevent her from using the princely title; he lost, and she remained Princesse de Polignac to her dying day.