Élisabeth de Gramont, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Élisabeth de Gramont

20th-century French writer

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1875

Place of Birth: Nancy, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 06-Dec-1954

Profession: writer, translator, salonnière

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Antoinette Corisande Élisabeth, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre (née.
de Gramont; 23 April 1875 – 6 December 1954) was a French writer of the early 20th century, best known for her long-term lesbian relationship with Natalie Clifford Barney, an American writer.
Élisabeth de Gramont had grown up among the highest aristocracy; when she was a child, according to Janet Flanner, "peasants on her farm...
begged her not to clean her shoes before entering their houses".
She looked back on this lost world of wealth and privilege with little regret, and became known as the "red duchess" for her support of socialism and feminism.She was a close friend, and sometimes critic of writer Marcel Proust, whom she had first met on 9 June 1903.



Alternative names	legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar
Description	French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist
Date of birth/death	6 April 1820	20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910
Location of birth/death	Paris	former 4th arrondissement of Paris
Work period	1854–1910
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40116 VIAF: 84808952 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 8535 ULAN: 500005199 LCCN: n50014563 NLA: 35553829 WorldCat