biography and autobiography entitled, REMINISCENCES OF ROSA BONHEUR, edited by Theodore Stanton, N. Y., Appleton, 1910, gives an account of their life together.

An intensely talented woman, Rosa Bonheur filled her life with successive artistic triumphs. Her beautiful canvasses hang in all the great museums of the world. A single listing of hor more famous animal canvasses would fill a dozen pages. Probably the celebrated "Horse Fair" is her best known work. For her period she was a powerful personality and without ostentation she calmly ignored all of tho conventions she personally found unnecessary. She used tobacco which was definitely not considered proper for a woman to use under any circumstances. In 1857 the Socretary-General of France issued a permit to Rosa Bonheur which allowed her to dress as a man legally. On one occasion a male friend teased her about going around in the company of men unchaperoned and she replied, "Oh, my dear Sir, if you know how little I care for your sex, you would not get any ideas in your head. The fact is, in the way of malos, I like only the bulls I paint." On another occasion when Miss Bonheur was dressed as a woman a policeman noticed her short hair and free and easy manners and arrested hor, thinking she was a man dressed as a woman. He was most chagrined to be introduced to the then most Famous French artist by his own superiors.

The culmination of her artistic career was her presentation of the Cross of the "Legion of Honor" by the Empress Eugenio. Miss Bonheur lived only four years after that, but her fow remaining years were onriched by the companship of a young American artist, Anna E. Klumpko. Rosa Bonheur's letters to friends make it clear that Miss Klumpko helpod oase her loneliness, but Rosa never again was as happy and free as she was when Nathalie Micas lived. Rosa Bonhour followed her beloved friend into death in 1899.

Always a prolific writer, she left a just and accurate summation of her life in one of her lettors: "I have no patience with women who ask permission to think. Lot women establish their claim by great and good works, and not by conventions."

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