On a hillside in leafy Caucade, within spitting distance of Nice airport, is the last home of poets, princes, and countesses , all of them Russian.
The countess of Lincoln, twice widowed, once by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and once by Ebulo Lestraunge, and therefore with two dowers, as well as being the Lacy heiress in her own right, was a very worthwhile prospect for anyone on the rise.