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unusual facts about Marthe Bibesco


Catherine Dolgorukov

A biography of Princess Catherine was written by Princess Marthe Bibesco.


Elvira Popescu

Together with Elena Văcărescu, Anna de Noailles, and Marthe Bibesco, Elvira Popescu is considered to be the inspiration for Henri Matisse's painting, La Blouse Roumaine (1940).

Francization

The common "-escu" final particle in Romanian being traditionally changed to "-esco" in French spellings and being occasionally adopted by the persons themselves as a French equivalent of their names (see Eugène Ionesco, Irina Ionesco, Marthe Bibesco).


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