Beauty Mark: Life and Death of Geneviève Lantelme

Geneviève Lantelme (born Mathilde Hortense Claire Fossey 20 May 1883 dying 24/25 July 1911) was a French stage actress, socialite, fashionista, and courtesan. Considered by her contemporaries to be one of the most beautiful women of the Belle Epoque and bearing a resemblance to American actress Ethel Barrymore, she is remembered for the mysterious circumstances of her death: on the night of 24/25 July 1911, she fell from the yacht of her husband, Alfred Edwards. She died at the age of 28 and her death has never been entirely solved. Did journalist and banker Edwards kill his fifth wife?

Sources:

Lantelme, Genevieve, https://androom.home.xs4all.nl/biography/p028299.htm

Verbinina, Wordpress Blog, https://verbinina.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/documents-about-fossey-family/

Ann Margaret Doyle, "France: The Third Republic", https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-94721-1_6

Prabook, "Alfred Edwards", https://prabook.com/web/alfred.edwards/2567204

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