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1873 Sings Massenet’s Marie Magdeleine, Paris Odéon.
1874 Dalila in private performance of Acts I and II of Samson et Dalila,
accompanied by Saint-Saëns.
1876 Death of George Sand.
1883 Deaths of Louis Viardot and Ivan Turgenev.
1889 Meeting, in Paris, with Tchaikovsky to whom she shows the
manuscript score of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, which she later presents
to the Paris Conservatoire.
1901 Awarded Légion d’Honneur by the French government.
1910 Death of Pauline Viardot, 18 May.
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