Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met
More than sixty years ago, the young Viscountess de Ribes, née Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont, stood on the balcony of a friend's Venetian palazzo. She was twenty-two, and only a few years out of her convent boarding school. The social life of a married woman was still a bit daunting. There was a cool formality to her new husband's world, and she was intimidated by its sophistication. She was growin…