11/01/2025
"An impeccably dressed American millionaire, Benjamin Guggenheim, was one of 146 first class passengers to board the tender SS Nomadic in the harbor city of Cherbourg, France. The small ship then ferried the passengers to the Titanic anchored in the middle of the bay. The brand-new luxurious ship was too large for the docking facility on shore. It was the second of three stops for embarking passengers after Southampton, England and before Queenstown, Ireland. It was April 10, 1912.
He had with him a friend, a mistress, a young lady nearly half his age.
Very little is known about Leontine Pauline Aubart, the 24-year-old French lounge singer who was the 47-year-old Guggenheim’s travelling companion. It is easy to assume that the opportunity to cross the great deep in such a lavish fashion was a thrill and a dream for the young lady. Aubart packed her trunks with all her finest wearables, some, one may assume, may have been purchased by her doting date for the occasion.
The dream, of course, became a nightmare. Aubart survived, Guggenheim did not."
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