HONOURS FOR FRENCH WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 611, 14 September 1909, Page 3

HONOURS FOR FRENCH WOMEN.

The . ornamental sex continues to' score ' ■' victories (say/ M.A.P.). The second Grand ■ Prize for' Sculpture of the School' of Fine Arts ■goes :.to'a lady, Mile. . Lucienne . Antoinette, Adelaide/ Heuvelmans,' twenty-eight; : - years of . age, who, it is whispered, would-,have obtained the first prize and gone to Rome :but-for the • fact-that. the actual winner of: the Prix do, Rome had reached the' age-limit, whereas / Mile. Heuvelmans can,' and ' will, compete ; again next, year and the year. She, . has 'already! competed-twice'before this year, when'she sent, in'a very fine sculpture, w'hich ■ was {much admired.. So far, no. woman has . ■ won a Prix de : Rome,'although. Mlle./Nadia

Boulanger was placed, second- for musiral com-' , position.. Mile. Heuvelmans had obtained all her diplomas. as .a. drawing-mistressat;.the. age of: twenty,' and was . then 'appointed /professor. of,' drawing '.by • the,' city of. Paris:' /,':,/- ■.r /'. J ; Again, the Legion of Honour ..' has-.'been awarded to Mile. Helena Dufau, an artist of , much ability and.charm./ Her panels, for,the decoration of the Sorbonno were/greatly ad-, mired at /one.' of the recent salons. .At /the time of .its. foundation-the, Legion: of Honour was never : given :to the fair sex... Napoleon •: was very-firm on this.point,, and even refused the cross to a--' woman-soldier,. -Angelique ■ Brulon. We'are a trifle more gallant nowadays; Mors Victories. This is not all. Mile. Alice ( Lccomte, daughter; of ( M. 'Lecbmte,.'/.yice-.; President of the Senate^.has : just , been com. missioned /to ' carry out the mural- decoration of the Mairio of Malo-lcs-Bains. Thoro / are about 300, metres/to decorate, and it is tho first . time that ■ a woman has , been: entriisted with inch a task. Mile. Lecomte has shown several, . pictures at the Salon, but she has not hitherto done any decorativo painting, on >a very large And, finally, ■ Mmo.' Theresa Barthas-Landrieu' has received, her ; doctors degree'/from'- tho ■Facility of Medicin? for a'thesis on the rieces-;. sity of teaching yoiing French girls .. how- to bring up and look after little' children. , This ■ appears to' bo ' a side 'of medical science, in which women could'-be'of great service.' .

.Mrs. Emmelino I'ankhurst. is to . be . wel- ■ corned oh her arrival in America, with-a mohster reception. at Carnegie /Hall in -New York.