Emma Bullet
French-American journalist (1842–1914)
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Emma Bullet (1842 – January 31, 1914) was a French-born American journalist, the Paris correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for 32 years. She also taught school in Ohio, and was a canteen worker during the Franco-Prussian War.
Emma Bullet | |
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Emma Bullet, from a 1906 publication | |
| Born | 1842 Belfort, France |
| Died | January 31, 1914 (aged 71–72) Paris, France |
| Occupations | Journalist, foreign correspondent, canteen worker, educator |
| Relatives | Henry Edward Krehbiel (brother-in-law) |
Early life and education
Career
Bullet taught French at the Ohio Female College in Cincinnati and at a school in Paris as a young woman.[1] She and her mother ran a "coffee shack" on Montmartre during the Franco-Prussian War.[2]
From 1879 to 1882, Bullet wrote for the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.[1] In 1882, she became the "graphic, unconventional, breezy" Paris correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,[3] a role she held for 32 years.[4] She reported on Parisian fashion,[5] and from Queen Victoria's jubilee in London in 1897.[6] She interviewed William Jennings Bryan in 1906.[7] In 1907, the newspaper published her autobiography in serial format,[8] and in 1908 published it as a special pamphlet, in observance of her 30th year as their Paris correspondent,[9] and she was honored at a dinner in Brooklyn by her colleagues at the Eagle.[10] She was a member of the Paris Press Club.[11]
Bullet's home in Paris was described as a weekly "salon" frequented by "the leaders in the world of literature, art, and music in Paris", especially Americans such as sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies and opera singer Emma Nevada.[11] She was "one of the best known and most representative of American women in Paris," according to an 1893 profile.[12]
Publications
Personal life
Bullet was in the United States for several months in 1908, and stayed with her sister Marie in Maine, New York, and Ohio.[9][15] Her sister was married to music critic Henry Edward Krehbiel.[1][16] She died in 1914, at her home in Paris, in her seventies.[1][17] "She combined an understanding of America and the Americans with a sureness and keenness of perception which made her letters from the French capital authoritative, comprehensive and interesting," commented the Brooklyn Times at the time of her death.[11]