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Hedwige de la Rochefoucauld

7th arrondissement of Paris, 15 Feb 1896 – 7th arrondissement of Paris, 7 May 1986

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A life in time

  1. 15 Feb 1896

    Born in 7th arrondissement of Paris

  2. 14 Mar 1922

    A daughter is born

  3. 7 May 1986

    Dies in 7th arrondissement of Paris, aged 90

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During her lifetime

She lived through 10 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around 7th arrondissement of Paris.

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The 1890s · Hedwige is born in 7th arrondissement of Paris

In the news1895

Industrial workers equaled agricultural workers

By the mid-1890s, the number of industrial workers in the German Empire grew to match those in agriculture, marking a major demographic shift toward urbanization and factory labor.

Getting around

Steam trains replaced horse carriages

By 1891, a steam train began connecting Annemasse to the Giffre valley in three hours, replacing an old horse-drawn carriage that required seven hours to cover the same distance.

Around the world1893

Women vote in New Zealand

New Zealand became the first country where women could vote in national elections.

Daily life

Strict posture training devices

To encourage upright posture, children were sometimes forced to wear heavy wooden armatures shaped like a cross tied to their backs.

What people wore

Alsatian folk dress used on political parades

In Alsace, traditional Tracht was tied to religious occasions like weddings and first communions, but it later became common at political rallies; when Kaiser Wilhelm II visited Strasbourg in 1877, women were greeted in Tracht. The text also describes how the costume’s symbolism shifted with politics over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Music

Large regional music competitions drew thousands

Musical societies frequently performed at regional competitions, such as one in 1891 in Aurillac that brought together over 1,000 performers to parade and compete.

At the table

Tax-free home distillation privileges

Between 1875 and 1914, French peasants had a legal privilege to distill part of their own wine, cider, or fruit harvest into spirits without paying any taxes or needing declarations.