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- Anne Tracy Morgan (July 25 1873 — January 29 1952) was an American philanthropist, the daughter of J. P. Morgan and the sister of J. P. Morgan, Jr. , both financiers. She is most remembered for her relief efforts in aid to France during and after World War I and II. Morgan was educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongst the wealth her father had amassed. She was awarded a medal from the National Institute of Social Science in 1915, the same year she published the story The American Girl. In 1932 she became the first American woman appointed a commander of the French Legion of Honor. In 1903 she became part owner of the Villa Trianon near Versailles, France, along with Decorator/socialite Elsie De Wolfe and theatrical/literary agent Elisabeth Marbury. Morgan was instrumental in assisting her close friend Elsie de Wolfe in creating a career in interior decoration. Some credit DeWolfe with creating the profession itself, although this is a broad simplification. The three ladies held court and became noted hostesses, affectionately referred to as "The Versailles Triumvirate". Also in 1903, along with DeWolfe, Marbury, and Ann Vanderbilt, she helped organize the Colony Club, the first women's social club in New York. This same coterie would in their later years, go on to create the exclusive neighborhood of Sutton Place along Manhattan's East River. In 1916, Morgan and DeWolfe helped finance Cole Porter's first Broadway musical, See America First, produced by Marbury. From 1917 to 1921 she took residence near the French front not far from both Soissons and the "Chemin des Dames" at Blérancourt and ran a large scale help organisation (it employed several hundred people at a time, volunteers from abroad and locally recruited staff)financed partly from her inheritance, partly with the help of an active network in the States. This was active in helping civilians caught in the war and organised a health service which still exist in Soissons, a furniture workshop to provide basic furniture to bombed out families, a holiday camp for children and a mobile library which was taken over by the library in Soissons etc... She came back in 1939 to help the Soissons evacuees . A four-story townhouse built in the Sutton Place neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City for Anne Morgan in 1921 was donated as a gift to the United Nations in 1972. It is now the official residence of the United Nations Secretary-General.
- Anne Tracy Morgan war eine US-amerikanische Millionenerbin und Philanthropin.
- Anne Morgan est une philanthrope américaine, née le 25 juillet 1873 et morte le 29 janvier 1952, fille du banquier John Pierpont Morgan. Elle est connue pour son action en faveur de l'aide aux sinistrés en France durant les deux guerres mondiales. A New-York, elle fonde le Colony Club, premier clubs pour femmes. En 1917, avec l'accord des autorités militaires (probablement le Général Pétain), elle s'installe en France à Blérancourt, près du front, dans ce qui reste du château construit en 1619 par Salomon de Brosse, et crée le Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées : cette institution a pour but de venir en aide aux sinistrés et victimes de la guerre; elle emploie jusqu'à plusieurs centaines de personnes (volontaires français ou étrangers) et intervient dans différents domaines (santé, logement, loisirs, éducation ...). Le financement est assuré par la fortune personnelle d'Anne Morgan mais aussi grâce à de nombreux dons (notamment de la part d'américains). Après la guerre, cette organisation participe activement à la reconstruction de la région. En 1924, elle fonde le Musée historique franco-américain, dans le domaine de Blérancourt, un château du XVII siècle; ce dernier, ainsi que ses collections, sera ensuite donné à la ville de Blérancourt et deviendra en 1931 le Musée national de la coopération franco-américaine. En 1932, elle est la première femme américaine à recevoir la Légion d'honneur. Pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, elle revient dans la région pour aider la population.
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- Anne Tracy Morgan (July 25 1873 — January 29 1952) was an American philanthropist, the daughter of J. P. Morgan and the sister of J. P. Morgan, Jr. , both financiers. She is most remembered for her relief efforts in aid to France during and after World War I and II. Morgan was educated privately, traveled frequently and grew up amongst the wealth her father had amassed.
- Anne Tracy Morgan war eine US-amerikanische Millionenerbin und Philanthropin.
- Anne Morgan est une philanthrope américaine, née le 25 juillet 1873 et morte le 29 janvier 1952, fille du banquier John Pierpont Morgan. Elle est connue pour son action en faveur de l'aide aux sinistrés en France durant les deux guerres mondiales. A New-York, elle fonde le Colony Club, premier clubs pour femmes.
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