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Died. Francois Coty (Joseph Marie Francois Spotuno), 60, perfumer ("Chypre," "L'Origan," "Rose de Jacqueminot" etc.), onetime newspaper publisher; of pneumonia; in Louveciennes, France. Like Napoleon, to whom he claimed distant kinship, he was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He built a small perfumer's shop, in which a brother-in-law gave him a job, into an internationally known organization. He published ten French newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated...
...beauty. The class of '84 sent a large wreath of white roses and purple violets ; the Pi Eta society a large design representing the club seal, and the base-ball nine sent a ball of white carnations with red stitches, two crossed bats and a circle of nine crimson Jacqueminot roses, one of which was broken...
Then comes a faded rose, a Jacqueminot, and the disease takes this phase: "This rose I had from Kate. She was the most grandly beautiful woman I ever saw; we met at Baltimore, during that Southern trip I took last spring, when the Faculty thought best, - you remember. I never appreciated Byron till I saw her. No cold hard outlines, but the rounded form of a Venus; the rich red blood of the South shining through the clear, olive-tinted skin. She was not one of those hoydenish creatures that one meets here, but seemed surrounded by an atmosphere...
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