Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American wartime nurse
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About Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès
- Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès (born Medora von Hoffmann, August 21, 1856 – 1921) was the daughter of wealthy New York banker Louis von Hoffmann and his wife, Athenais Grymes, whose family had been prominent in Louisiana.
- Medora was the wife of Antoine Amédée-Marie-Vincent Amot Manca de Vallombrosa, the Marquis de Morès.
- They had three children, a daughter Athenais, born in 1883, a son Louis, born in 1885; and a son Paul, born in France in 1890. The town of Medora, North Dakota, founded in 1883, was named by the Marquis in her honor.
- The Marquis's meat packing plant failed and the town fell into a decline after the family left.
- However, the story of the Marquis de Mores and Medora are now featured in The Medora Musical held every summer in Medora, a major tourist town in the North Dakota Badlands.
- The 26-room clapboard-sided ranch house the Marquis built for his heiress wife, known as the "Chateau de Mores", has been restored, and tours of it are given.
- The Marquise de Morès lived in both Paris and Cannes, France after the assassination of the Marquis de Morès in 1896.
- During World War I, she turned her home into a hospital for wounded soldiers.
- She died in 1921 of a leg injury she received while working as a nurse.
- The wound never fully healed.
- Others say she died of an infectious disease she acquired while touring India with her husband.
- This gave her bouts of illness throughout her life which eventually resulted in her death.
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