Constance Coolidge | |
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,_by_John_Singer_Sargent.jpg) Charcoal drawing of Constance, 1915 | |
| Born | Constance Crowninshield Coolidge January 4, 1892 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | April 30, 1973 (aged 81) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Spouses | Count Pierre de Jumilhac
(m. 1924; div. 1929)Eliot Rogers
(m. 1930; div. 1932)André Magnus (m. 1940) |
| Relatives | Caspar Crowninshield (grandfather) |
Constance Crowninshield Coolidge (January 4, 1892 – April 30, 1973), was a Boston Brahmin (a member of Boston's upper society), socialite, heiress and a long-term American expatriate living in Paris.[1] She had the pedigree of the most elite Boston Brahmin: she was a descendant of the Adams, Amory, Coolidge, Copley, Crowninshield, and Peabody families, all of them well known in Boston's high society. She was a distant relative of Calvin Coolidge.
A trust child and in adulthood a self-proclaimed socialist, Constance rejected her Brahmin background early in life, replacing it with a Parisian life from 1923 onwards. Her friendships included the literati such as Harry Crosby, Hart Crane, Robert Herrick, Somerset Maugham and H. G. Wells, who affectionately referred to her as Connie.[2]
- ^ Massachusetts Historical Society. "The World of Constance Coolidge and her infamous charms".
- ^ Atherton, Constance; Jumilhac, Countess de; Rogers, Constance; Magnus, Constance (2019), "Star Begotten: HG and Constance Coolidge, 1935–1937", Shadow Lovers UK Edition, pp. 213–328, doi:10.4324/9780429305917-4, ISBN 978-0-429-30591-7, retrieved February 7, 2023