Comtesse Pauline Cornet de Ways-Ruart
23 Dec 1914 – 19 Oct 1953
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- Born23 Dec 1914not verified1 source
- Died19 Oct 1953not verified1 source
A life in time
23 Dec 1914
Born
28 Aug 1941
A daughter is born
19 Oct 1953
Dies, aged 38
Family
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The 1910s · Comtesse is born
Around the world · 1914–1918The First World War. From 1914 to 1918 the great powers fought in trenches across Europe and beyond; some 20 million people died. Brazil joined the Allies in 1917.
Around the world · 1908–1927The Model T. Ford’s assembly line made a car ordinary families could buy: fifteen million were built.
Around the world · 1912The Titanic sinks. The largest ship afloat struck an iceberg on her first voyage; more than 1,500 people died in the North Atlantic.
Around the world · 1918–1920The Spanish flu. A flu pandemic infected a third of humanity and killed some 50 million people, more than the war that had just ended.