Established In Paris During: RECAMIER, ra-ka-mya', Jeanne Frangoise Julie Adelaide (nee BERNARD, ber-nar'), celebrated French beauty and social figure: b. Lyon, France, Dec. 4, 1777; d. Paris, May 11, 1849. She was educated at the Convent of la Deserte in Lyon. Her father, a banker, established in paris during his business in Paris in 1784, and at the age of 15 she joined him there.
The Selective Shopper on the Prowl Paris is a shopper's heaven, especially if the shopper is on the distaff side. It is an expensive heaven, in these days, notably excepting perfumes, which are far cheaper in Paris than in America, but the cost doesn't seem to frighten tourists away. Paris est toujours Paris.
ROBERTS, Howard, American sculptor: b. Philadelphia, April 9, 1843; d. Paris, April 19, 1WO. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1866 went to Paris where he studied under Dumont and Gumery at the ficole des Beaux-Arts. Returning to Philadelphia in 1871 he established in paris during his studio there. During a second sojourn in Paris (1873-1876) he produced La Premiere Pose which earned him "iie of the three medals awarded to American sculptors at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Other works of note are his statue "I Robert Fulton for the Rotunda of the National Capitol, Hypatia and Eleanor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Hester Prynne.
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