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'''Bessie Behan''' was an American social leader.
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Bessie Behan was born in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], March 6, 1872. She was a daughter of Gen. [[William J. Behan]], a prominent southern merchant and an extensive sugar planter, and [[Kate Walker Behan]], a social leader and philanthropist of New Orleans.
She was educated at home by skilled governesses, and had all the advantages of much travel. Her associations in New Orleans made the acquisition of the French language easy and natural, and she was thus master of two languages. Her education was completed, and she made her début in society in New Orleans in 1891.
The most coveted of all social honors in New Orleans in that era was to be chosen queen in the [[Mardi Gras in New Orleans|Mardi Gras Carnival]]. That honor fell to Behan in the carnival of 1891. She was the youngest woman yet selected for coronation in that festival.
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* {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Bessie Behan}}
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'''Bessie Behan''' was an American social leader.
<ref name="WillardLivermore1893">{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |year=1893 |publisher=[[Charles Wells Moulton]] |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Bessie_Behan |page=71 |chapter=BEHAN, Miss Bessie |access-date=27 April 2024}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
Bessie Behan was born in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], March 6, 1872. She was a daughter of Gen. [[William J. Behan]], a prominent southern merchant and an extensive sugar planter, and [[Kate Walker Behan]], a social leader and philanthropist of New Orleans.
She was educated at home by skilled governesses, and had all the advantages of much travel. Her associations in New Orleans made the acquisition of the French language easy and natural, and she was thus master of two languages. Her education was completed, and she made her début in society in New Orleans in 1891.
The most coveted of all social honors in New Orleans in that era was to be chosen queen in the [[Mardi Gras in New Orleans|Mardi Gras Carnival]]. That honor fell to Behan in the carnival of 1891. She was the youngest woman yet selected for coronation in that festival.
<ref name="WillardLivermore1893" />
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Bessie Behan}}
{{Portal|Biography}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Behan, Bessie}}
[[Category:1872 births]]
[[Category:1956 deaths]]
[[Category:New Orleans]]
[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century]]
Okumaya devam et...