Jane Catulle-Mendès
Jeanne Primitive Mette (16 March 1867 – 9 June 1955), better known under her married name, Jane Catulle-Mendès, and as a French poet who also wrote plays and other prose works, and contributed to Pierre Lafitte (journalist), Pierre Lafitte's ''Femina (France), Femina''. Life Jane was born in Paris 16 March 1867, daughter of Célestin Marie Mette and Eugénie Mayer who had married in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine (now Hauts-de-Seine), November 18, 1869. She first married Louis Alexandre Boussac, a merchant, with whom 1889 she had a son Marcel Boussac, Marcel. Marcel would become an industrialist tycoon whose holdings included the House of Dior and a highly successful racehorse stud, and who married the singer Fanny Heldy, Fanny Held in 1939. She and Boussac divorced on 27 June 1895, and she married Symbolism (arts), Symbolist poet Catulle Mendès in Seine-et-Oise, July 8, 1897, who had separated from writer Judith Gautier in 1878 (divorced December 1896). His three daughters, ...
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