LONG SECRET

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 234, 24 May 1932, Page 7

LONG SECRET

TITLED ENGLISH WOMAN WHO CONDUCTED BOOK STALL. PITCH ON QUAY. A cultured gre-y haired Englishwoman who sold books at a stall on the Seine quayside and once bore a title recently died in Paris at the age of 62. She was Mme. Edauard Dodeman, formerly Lady Barlow. Twerity-six years ago, when, as Lady Barlow, deceased had a hook shop in London, she. went to Paris for a holiday and met M. Edouard Dodeman. They fell in love and married. The honeymoon was spent in London collecting second-hand books. to start a business in Paris. Mme. Dodeman never went back to England. She sold English books from her pitch on the quay wall, while ber busband, at an adjoining pitch, sold French books. She was known to most of the members of the English and American colony in Paris and to many British visitors. In all.weathers she was at her post and she was invariably cheerful. Her flawless speech and distinguished appearance aroused the curiosity of all who met her, but only to the f ew did she reveal something of her history. A few weeks before her death Mme. Dodeman had a cold. This developed into pneumonia, and although her husband nursed her deyotedly, she died and was Ifcmriecl before any of her customers knew of her illness. It was .only when her husband returned to his pitch that the sad event became known.