Geneviève Lantelme (born Mathilde Hortense Claire Fossey, 20 May 1883
â€" 24/25 July 1911) was a French stage actress, socialite, fashion
icon, and courtesan. Considered by her contemporaries to be one of the
most beautiful women of the Belle Epoque and bearing a resemblance to
American actress Ethel Barrymore, she is remembered for the mysterious
circumstances of her death: on the night of 24/25 July 1911, she fell
from the yacht of her husband, Alfred Edwards.Mathilde Hortense Claire
Fossey was born on 20 May 1883 in Paris, the third child to Edouard
Fossey, a cashier who later became an accountant, and Claire Fossey
(née. Lantelme). Mathilde had two older sisters as well as one
younger sister.In 1895, Mathilde's parents divorced, and the court
gave custody of the children to Edouard.Another French actress of the
turn of the century, Simone le Bargy, wrote about Lantelme in her
memoirs, Sous de nouveaux soleils, in which she claimed, among other
things, that Mathilde somehow ended up in a brothel run by her mother
at the age of fourteen. Geneviève Lantelme Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter