Alice Louise Désirée AMIOT

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Nationalite: Destitution de nationalité française pour être l'épouse d'un allemand. Paris, Île-de-France, France [1917] Extrait de A book of secrets de Michael Holroyd (Biographie de Violet Trefusis) 2 : In 1958 she added a new complication to her life by buying an apartmentin Paris. It was the wing of a mansion in the rue du Cherche Midi thathad once belonged to the Duc de Saint-Simon (and was later bought by Andy Warhol). She decorated the enormous drawing room, the conservatory and bedrooms with marble busts, Aubusson rugs, Louis XV chairs and eighteenth-century portraits. From here it was no distance to London where Violet would stay, as her mother had done, at the Ritz

Hotel. Wherever she went she travelled with her chauffeur and her maid. Mary Duncan

15 rue du Cherche Midi is discussed in my book, Henry Miller is Under My Bed: People and Places on the Way to Paris (Starhaven 2008). My late friend Dan Dixon owned the RdC, the two blue doors in photo #4. Andy Warhol owned the apartment upstairs, the owner of Club Med owned the penthouse and a countess owned the apt on the right as you enter thegates. I had use of the large studio for several years. The courtyard has really been improved. I'm told that originally it was built in 1680? or so. The ground floor apts were for the horses

Mariée le 2 juin 1910, Le Raincy,Seine-Saint-Denis,France, avec Josef Albert MERTENS 1878-1938?