Loïe Fuller, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Mademoiselle Raucourt

Born: Loïe Fuller (1862), Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864)
Died: Mademoiselle Raucourt (1815)

Born on this day

With swirling silk and coloured light she invented a new kind of dance – and lived in Paris for nearly thirty years with her partner Gabrielle Bloch.

A photographer who recorded public figures, education and the changing architecture of the American South.

The great tragedienne of the Comédie-Française loved women – and when the Church refused her coffin, the crowd stormed the doors.