Marcelle Eugenie Henrietta Bullard

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Marcelle Eugenie Henrietta Bullard (Straumann) (1900 - 1990)

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Death: 1990 (85-94)
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Daughter of Louis Albert de Straumann and Countess Helene Heloise Charlotte de Straumann
Ex-wife of Lt. Eugene Jacques Bullard
Mother of Jacqueline Hernandez and Lolita Josephine Johnson

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About Marcelle Eugenie Henrietta Bullard

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The Decorated Airman and The Aristocrat

City Hall of 10th district Aviator Eugene Bullard & Marcelle de Straumann

In 1923, Eugene Bullard married Marcelle Eugenie Henriette de Straumann, the daughter of a wealthy Parisian family.

He was introduced to the wealthy de Straumann family by two painter friends and despite his working-class occupation as an exercise trainer (to the rich and lesser so), the aristocratic parents had no objection to him taking their daughter dancing. On July 4, 1922, with great trepidation, he declared his love for Marcelle to them. Just over a year later, July 17, 1923, the couple were married in an early afternoon civil ceremony in the City Hall of the 10th arrondissement (district).

The wedding party guests included high-brow relatives on her side and on his, friends from the military, the entertainment and sports world. They made merry at the Brasserie Universelle, at the corner of Avenue Opera and Avenue Danou, and in French style the wedding party stretched late in the afternoon. Come nightfall, the father of the bride hired 10 taxicabs to shuttle the guests up the hill to Montmartre where they continued celebrating until well into the wee hours.

The lovebirds honeymooned in the chic Atlantic seaside resort town of Biarritz, near the Spanish border. Their first apartment had a magnificent view of the Eiffel Tower, bien sur, across the River Seine. The couple had two surviving daughters, Jacqueline born in 1924 and Lolita Josephine in 1927.

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