Isabelle Eberhardt
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Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt was a Swiss explorer and author. As a teenager, Eberhardt, educated in Switzerland by her father, published short stories under a male pseudonym. She became interes
Eberhardt in 1895
Eberhardt photographed by Louis David in "odds and ends" of Arabic clothing that David owned
Marquis de Morès
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Antoine Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca-Amat, Marquis de Morès was a French duelist, frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pi
Isabelle Eberhardt
…to no money available. Encouraged by a friend, she went to Paris to become a writer but had little success. While in Paris Eberhardt met the widow of Marquis de Morès. Although de Morès had been reportedly murdered by Tuareg tribesmen in the Sahara, no one had been arrested. When his widow learned that Eberhardt was…
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The "Chateau de Mores" in Medora, North Dakota
Duel between the Marquis de Morès and Captain Mayer, front page of Le Petit Parisien Illustré (July 3, 1892)
Statue of the Marquis de Morès in Medora