Pauline Joutard (1890–1957) was a
French-born Mexican
pianist
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who performed under the stage name Miirrha Alhambra.
Her sister Flora Joutard and she had studied in
Bad Homburg
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before touring Europe and South America together in the early 1900s. A friend took her to
Mérida to play where she would meet and marry her husband, Domingo Fernando Evia y Barbachano (1883–1977), a wealthy
Mexican landowner who was a member of two families that have been prominent in the politics and culture of Yucatán since the mid 19th century, one of which, the Barbachanos, has been described as "one of the most powerful of Yucatán’s oligarchy
On 30 June 1912, she arrived with her husband and two-year-old son
Edgar de Evia
Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia (July 30, 1910 – February 10, 2003), was a Mexican-born American interiors photographer.
In a career that spanned the 1940s through the 1990s, his photography appeared in maga ...
in
New York City
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aboard the liner "Progreso"
[According to the ship's manifest, which can be accessed at http://www.ellisisland.org, several members of the Evia family immigrated from Mexico to New York at the same time, including her husband's sister Rosario Evia de Espejo with her own husband and children. In the manifest, Alhambra's husband Domingo gave his occupation as farmer. According to the manifest, the family's surname was Evia, not de Evia.]
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1890 births
1957 deaths
20th-century French women classical pianists
French emigrants to Mexico