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Apr 23, 1875 Nancy, Grand Est, France Died on 06 Dec 1954 (aged 79)
20th-century French writer
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About Élisabeth De Gramont
- 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.
