In a trip designed to raise funds for the American Committee for Devastated France, Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Jacqueline arrived in the United States in 1918. Although born, raised, and educated in Paris, the sisters claimed to descend directly from two Signers of the Declaration of Independence of America. George Clymer, our mother's great-grandfather, and George Read, both being not only signers but also framers of the Constitution of the United States. Acting in a post-World War I diplomatic capacity, the sisters traveled the country over a period of six months to give...
In a trip designed to raise funds for the American Committee for Devastated France, Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Jacqueline arrived in t...
In a trip designed to raise funds for the American Committee for Devastated France, Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Jacqueline arrived in the United States in 1918. Although born, raised, and educated in Paris, the sisters claimed to descend directly from two Signers of the Declaration of Independence of America. George Clymer, our mother's great-grandfather, and George Read, both being not only signers but also framers of the Constitution of the United States. Acting in a post-World War I diplomatic capacity, the sisters traveled the country over a period of six months to give...
In a trip designed to raise funds for the American Committee for Devastated France, Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Jacqueline arrived in t...