Alice Desgranges Explained

Hortense Marie Eugénie Pellet dite Alice Desgranges (1854  - 1927), was a French operatic singer.

Alice Desgranges was born in Paris. The wife of composer Théodore Ritter, she is present on a painting by Edgar Degas (1878) kept at the Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen, a print by Marcellin Desboutin (1875)[1] and through a poem by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, À Madame A. Ritter Desgranges.

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  1. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105247372/f1.highres See