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Mérode continued to dance until her early fifties when she retired to the seaside resort of Biarritz in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France. In 1955 she published her autobiography Le Ballet de ma vie.

Cléo dem Mérode died in 1966 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Cleo's Grave, complete with sculpture

Cleo de Merode, aged 94 in 1964, Cecil Beaton

It’s easy to think of celebrity culture as being a modern phenomenon. Fueled by social media, celebrity is now a throwaway term, as anyone with a successful YouTube channel or Instagram account demonstrates. However, in terms of how we understand celebrity in the twenty-first century, Cleo de Merode was the first woman whose image was distributed around the world, and the first modern icon.

Born in Paris in September 1875, she was the illegitimate daughter of a Viennese baroness, Vincentia Maria Caecilians Catherina de Merode. Her father is often cited as being her uncle, the landscape painter Carl Von Merode. However, her mother had little contact with Cleo’s true father (in fact, she didn’t meet him until she was an adult), the Austrian judge and lawyer, Theodor Christomannos, who was also one of the fathers of modern tourism.

[IMAGE] A beautiful portrait of De Merode

She was sent to study dance at the a

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