Justine was killed in the Bazar de la Charité fire on May 4, 1897. She was likely either killed in the stampede of burned to death in the Bazar itself. She was attending the Bazar with her two daughters, who survived.
"While her husband was completing his period of instruction as an artillery officer in the territorial army in Isère, the Countess Couret de Villeneuve sold at counter n ° 3 for the parish works of Saint-Honoré-d'Eylau ( in particular the orphanage on rue Victor-Hugo). She was helped by her eldest daughters, Gabrielle (19) and Lucy (18) while the three youngest children, aged 9 to 14, left the bazaar in the afternoon.
When the fire broke out, Mme de Villeneuve resisted a friend Mme Payen, wife of the honorary vice-president of the Tribunal de la Seine, who wanted to help her leave. Not wanting to leave without her daughters, she kept calling for them until she fell dead in the middle of the blaze.
During this time, her daughters emerged from the inferno safe and sound; Lucy was carried by the crowd to rue Jean-Goujon, while Gabrielle, led by Mme Payen, reached the vacant lot. After looking in vain for their mother, they returned home and found their brother Lucien who had returned from Saint-Ignace school looking for news of his mother and sisters.
M. de Villeneuve was warned by telegram and went the next day to the Palais de l'Industrie to identify his wife's remains with the help of his dentist M. Brault."
"While her husband was completing his period of instruction as an artillery officer in the territorial army in Isère, the Countess Couret de Villeneuve sold at counter n ° 3 for the parish works of Saint-Honoré-d'Eylau ( in particular the orphanage on rue Victor-Hugo). She was helped by her eldest daughters, Gabrielle (19) and Lucy (18) while the three youngest children, aged 9 to 14, left the bazaar in the afternoon.
When the fire broke out, Mme de Villeneuve resisted a friend Mme Payen, wife of the honorary vice-president of the Tribunal de la Seine, who wanted to help her leave. Not wanting to leave without her daughters, she kept calling for them until she fell dead in the middle of the blaze.
During this time, her daughters emerged from the inferno safe and sound; Lucy was carried by the crowd to rue Jean-Goujon, while Gabrielle, led by Mme Payen, reached the vacant lot. After looking in vain for their mother, they returned home and found their brother Lucien who had returned from Saint-Ignace school looking for news of his mother and sisters.
M. de Villeneuve was warned by telegram and went the next day to the Palais de l'Industrie to identify his wife's remains with the help of his dentist M. Brault."
Justine was killed in the Bazar de la Charité fire on May 4, 1897. She was likely either killed in the stampede of burned to death in the Bazar itself. She was attending the Bazar with her two daughters, who survived.
"While her husband was completing his period of instruction as an artillery officer in the territorial army in Isère, the Countess Couret de Villeneuve sold at counter n ° 3 for the parish works of Saint-Honoré-d'Eylau ( in particular the orphanage on rue Victor-Hugo). She was helped by her eldest daughters, Gabrielle (19) and Lucy (18) while the three youngest children, aged 9 to 14, left the bazaar in the afternoon.
When the fire broke out, Mme de Villeneuve resisted a friend Mme Payen, wife of the honorary vice-president of the Tribunal de la Seine, who wanted to help her leave. Not wanting to leave without her daughters, she kept calling for them until she fell dead in the middle of the blaze.
During this time, her daughters emerged from the inferno safe and sound; Lucy was carried by the crowd to rue Jean-Goujon, while Gabrielle, led by Mme Payen, reached the vacant lot. After looking in vain for their mother, they returned home and found their brother Lucien who had returned from Saint-Ignace school looking for news of his mother and sisters.
M. de Villeneuve was warned by telegram and went the next day to the Palais de l'Industrie to identify his wife's remains with the help of his dentist M. Brault."
"While her husband was completing his period of instruction as an artillery officer in the territorial army in Isère, the Countess Couret de Villeneuve sold at counter n ° 3 for the parish works of Saint-Honoré-d'Eylau ( in particular the orphanage on rue Victor-Hugo). She was helped by her eldest daughters, Gabrielle (19) and Lucy (18) while the three youngest children, aged 9 to 14, left the bazaar in the afternoon.
When the fire broke out, Mme de Villeneuve resisted a friend Mme Payen, wife of the honorary vice-president of the Tribunal de la Seine, who wanted to help her leave. Not wanting to leave without her daughters, she kept calling for them until she fell dead in the middle of the blaze.
During this time, her daughters emerged from the inferno safe and sound; Lucy was carried by the crowd to rue Jean-Goujon, while Gabrielle, led by Mme Payen, reached the vacant lot. After looking in vain for their mother, they returned home and found their brother Lucien who had returned from Saint-Ignace school looking for news of his mother and sisters.
M. de Villeneuve was warned by telegram and went the next day to the Palais de l'Industrie to identify his wife's remains with the help of his dentist M. Brault."
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