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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. George de Cuevas was a Chilean-born ballet impresario and choreographer who was best known for the Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas that he formed in 1944. Cuevas was born as Jorge Cuevas Bartholin in 1885 in Santiago, Chile, a son of Eduardo Cuevas Avaria, a prominent Chilean politician and former diplomat, and his third wife, the former Maria Manuela del Carmen Bartholin de la Guarda, who was half Danish. He had five siblings: Roberto, Luis, Enrique, Sara, and Carmela. He also had 11 half-siblings from his father's previous marriages. Though Cuevas was apparently homosexual he married Margaret Rockefeller Strong, a granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller in Paris on 3 August 1927, on which day he received, by royal decree, the title of Marques de Piedra Blanca de la Guana. Around the time of the wedding, Cuevas had been serving as a secretary at the Chilean legation in London; the bride had been raised in Italy and studied chemistry at Cambridge University

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