Yvonne Lacroix
Yvonne Margaine-Lacroix (November 9, 1892 – June 28, 1944) was a French figure skater of the early 20th-century. In 1909 she became the first woman crowned champion of France in the French Figure Skating Championships. Biography Yvonne Lacroix was born at her parents' home in Paris in 1892. She was the daughter of Philippe Léonard Lacroix, a tailor, and Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix, a famous couturier and the head of the Margaine-Lacroix fashion house. On April 27, 1909, in Herblay-sur-Seine she married the Franco-American filmmaker and producer René Plaissetty (1889-1955). The couple had two children: Jacqueline (1909-1993) and Micheline Plaissetty (1911-1983). In 1914 at the start of World War I the couple and their children moved to the safety of the United States, living in New Orleans, New York and Philadelphia. They returned to Paris in 1916 and divorced in October 1918. On December 18, 1920, in Paris she married Georges Max David. They divorced in 1932. By 1938 she was working as a seamstress in Paris. Yvonne Lacroix died on June 28, 1944, at her home, 37 rue Boissy-d'Anglas, in Paris. She was buried with her parents and grandmother in the family grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris on July