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Countess Charlotte Stern Venturini ~ 1971
Was born in New York City where her
father, Edward Otto Stem, a naturalized American, was Russian
Vice-Consul and a great financier. While Vice-Consul, Mr. Stem
married Maltide Druilhet, daughter of Jules Antoine and Emma A.
Druilhet, of New Orleans. Miss Stem's maternal great-grandfather
"was proprietor of St. James Parish, New Orleans. At the
beginning of the Civil War in 1861, her maternal grandfather,
Jules Antoine Druilhet, better known as Captain Druilhet, was
the youngest captain of the Louisiana volunteers. He equipped a
regiment of St James Parish at his own expense and was under
orders of Jones, Jefferson and Beauregard.
Madam Druilhet, the mother of Countess Mario Venturini, was an
accomplished pianist, and her salon was for many years the
musical center of New Orleans. Left a widow a few years after
her marriage, Mrs. Stem left America and went to live in Belgium
where her home was the center of the best artists of the
country. Surrounded by such associations during her childhood,
Miss Stern early developed artistic tastes which eventually
became the ruling passion of her youth. Miss Stem made her
social debut at the Court of Brussels, where she was presented
by the United States American Minister, Honorable Bellamy Storer.
Miss Stem gave up her social career to enter the Academie Julien
to pursue her studies in art. While here she became very much
interested in the American students, young girls studying art in
Paris. On the 9th of November, 1903, Miss Stern married Count
Mario Venturini.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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