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Show NOTED ILLINOIS FRENCH WOMAN DIES CHICAGO. My 1. There died In Chicago Chi-cago yesterday a woman who. although a resident of the United State for flfty-even flfty-even year never learned to speak the language of her adopted country, never cared for any but the customs of her own native Francs, and who for half a century wa a central figure In nearly all the Important social gatherings of French-Americana In Illlnol. Th woman waa Mr. Lout Des Combes Favard. who was a member of the old French nobility and who was born elghty-slx years ago In Cherbourg. Fifty-seven yeare ago she came with her parents to the United States with a colony of French people, who settled at Nauvoo, HL The French Immigrant purchased the village from th Mormons, who then were making their western migration which snded at Salt Lake City. |