Winnaretta Singer: Isabella Eugenie Boyer, Singer Corporation, Oldway Mansion, Versailles, Petit Trianon, Statue of Liberty, Franco-Prussian War, Patronage - Tapa blanda

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Winnaretta Singer, Princess Edmond de Polignac (8 January 1865 – 26 November 1943) was an American musical patron and heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. She was the twentieth of the 24 children of Isaac Merritt Singer. Her mother was his Parisian-born second wife, Isabella Eugenie Boyer, who was possibly the model for Bartholdi''s Statue of Liberty. Winnaretta was born in Yonkers, New York. After the outbreak of American Civil War, the Singer family moved to Paris, where they remained until the Franco-Prussian War. The family then settled in England, first in London, and then Paignton, Devon; there, Isaac Singer built Oldway Mansion, a 115-room palace modeled on the Petit Trianon at Versailles, which he named The Wigwam." After Singer''s death in 1875, Isabelle and her children moved back to Paris. Although known within private social circles to be lesbian, Winnaretta married at the age of 22 to Prince Louis de Scey-Montbéliard."