[RLK]

Jackie, by the way, tried to present herself as aristocratic French. She studied and spoke French to further that image. In reality, she was mostly Irish. The original Bouvier was a cabinet maker who came here in the 1800s. He created a small furniture empire. He didn't marry French. Jackie's grandmother was an Irish woman who spoke with a thick brogue and maintained an Irish home and life style. In later years they tried to keep the old woman isolated and shoved in the background because she was an embarrassment to social pretentions. Jackie's father Jack 'blackjack' Bouvier was a partier and womanizer who pissed away the family business and ended up worth a piddling $350,000, which was another embarrassment. Hell of a family.

[potlatch]

Jackie, by the way, tried to present herself as aristocratic French.

BooHoo, all my illusions destroyed! I did know all about her father, whom she adored, but didn't know about the grandmother. They certainly knew how to put on a good 'front'!!