Social life in the early republic . 3 &?. MID-CENTURY GAYETIES Potestad visited with her husband, who was in thediplomatic service, she gracefully and charminglyrepresented her country. In Paris the central figureof a gay and brilliant circle, which included themost distinguished Frenchmen of the day, Madamede Potestad was always known as a good wife andmother, as well as a brilliantly beautiful, attractive,and witty woman. At one of the fairy-like fetes given by the Em-press Eugenie, at the Hotel dAlbe, which she hadbought for her mother, Madame de Potestad is de-scribed as radiantly beautifu
Social life in the early republic . 3 &?. MID-CENTURY GAYETIES Potestad visited with her husband, who was in thediplomatic service, she gracefully and charminglyrepresented her country. In Paris the central figureof a gay and brilliant circle, which included themost distinguished Frenchmen of the day, Madamede Potestad was always known as a good wife andmother, as well as a brilliantly beautiful, attractive,and witty woman. At one of the fairy-like fetes given by the Em-press Eugenie, at the Hotel dAlbe, which she hadbought for her mother, Madame de Potestad is de-scribed as radiantly beautiful, in a costume createdby Worth, called clair de lune dans un bois whichwas well suited to the lovely gardens with theirpicturesque bosquets in which the Empress enter-tained her guests. Although Miss Miller entered into many gayscenes and received quite enough attention fromdistinguished men and women to have turned soyoung a head, the fact that the most lasting im-pressions were made upon her mind by a visit toMrs. Alexander Hamilton a
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