Cleo de merode biography books
Cleo de merode biography books
Cleo de merode biography...
Cléo de Mérode
French dancer (1875–1966)
Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 – 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque.[1] She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity".[2] She was also the first woman whose photographic image, due in particular to photographers Nadar and Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, was distributed worldwide.[3]
Biography
Cléo de Mérode was born in Paris, France on 27 September 1875 at 7:00 P.M.[4] She was the illegitimate[5] daughter of Viennese Baroness Vincentia Maria Cäcilia Catharina de Mérode (1850–1899).[6][7][8] Vincentia was estranged from Cléo's father, who was the Austrian judge, lawyer, and pioneer of tourism Theodor Christomannos.
Through Christomannos' marriage to Aloysia Wellzensohn, she had three half-siblings.[9][10][11] Cléo met her father as a young ad