At last a thread about Sophie
, her real name is Sophie Charlotte, her death was very tragic, she took part in "Le Bazar de la charité", where aristocratic's people sold things for their charitable work. The place was like a medieval street with booths painted in vivid color, and in a little place, a cinematograph was installed, and it is this one who set fire on the building
. The poor duchess was nearly the far end of the Bazar, she indicated an exit in a little waste ground for her assistants and gives orders "The young girls before, then visitors...", she wanted to leave the last. The Duc d'Alençon was at the other end of the place, he gaves orders, too, for the evacuation, but people were panicked, when at last he saw he couldn't do anything more, he crossed counter-current the Bazar to save his wife. At this moment Sophie realised too that the situation was critic, with a baronne she tried to escape and walked a little in the bazar, but when she saw all this corpses in the floor, she didn't want to walk on it, and above all she was persuaded that her husband had not left without her. Some people recognised her and tried to push her toward the exit but she refused and said "Saves the others". During this time the Duc , with the beard burned, reached the stand of his wife, he yelled her name, some women told him that the duchess was saved in the waste ground, but infortunately she was only at a few meters of him. He ran towards this place but logically didn't see her but it was too late, the roof of the Bazar collapsed, killed around 143 people
I have much anectodes about this woman, she is not really knew in France, how do you have been interested in her story, Smiths Chips
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