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    Henriette d'Angeville (10 March 1794 in Semur-en-Auxois – 13 January 1871 in Lausanne) was the second woman to climb Mont Blanc, and the first to do so...
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    as her guide. July 1838 (1838-07): The second ascent by a woman, Henriette d'Angeville. 1890: Giovanni Bonin, Luigi Grasselli and Fr. Achille Ratti (later...
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    second woman to climb Mont Blanc did so thirty years after her; when Henriette d'Angeville celebrated her successful ascent in Chamonix, she was congratulated...
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    became the first woman to climb Mont Blanc, followed in 1838 by Henriette d'Angeville. The beginning of mountaineering as a sport in the UK is generally...
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    birthplace of Saint Hugues, the founder of Cluny Abbey, born 1024 Henriette d'Angeville, the second woman to climb Mont Blanc. The chef Albert Roux OBE...
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    is the castle d'Angeville, a family possession of the family of that name since 1657. A scion of that family was Henriette d'Angeville, the second woman...
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    She largely wrote biographies of other women climbers; alongside Henriette d'Angeville, she wrote accounts of Richardson, Meta Brevoort, and Isabella Charlet-Straton...
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