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Show REMARKABLE WOMAN IS DEAD IN FRANCE Jane Dieulafoy, Author, Explorer and Chevalier of legion of Honor, Passes Away. PARIS, May 27, 4:45 a. m. Mine. Jane Dieulafoy, author, explorer, cheva- j Iier of the Legion of Honor, and pos- j sessor of the unique privilege accorded by the FTench government of wearing male apparel, is dead. In the sixty-five rears of her life Mine. Dieulafoy passed through cxperi- - ..i.oni 111,1 iu iiu lugeuuea as one of the most remarkable women in France. She w"as born in Toulouse and was not yet out of her 'teens when she married Marcel Auguste Dieulafoy, a young engineer. Ho went to the front during the Franco-Prussian war and took his bride with him. She disguised dis-guised herself as a man in the regulation regula-tion French uniform and fought by her husband 's side. In the 'SO's M. Dieulafoy was commissioned com-missioned to go to Asia for archaeological archaeologi-cal research. Mine. Dieulafoy accompanied accom-panied him and spent several years in Chaldea and Persia. They discovered the ruins of Palace of Darius and Ar-taxerxes. Ar-taxerxes. 3 After returning to France, Mine. Dieulafoy, who had become, accustomed during her travels to the constant, wearing wear-ing of a man's costume, received authorization au-thorization to appear in public in this apparel. She wrote a large number of books on historical, archaeological and romantic themes. |