Harriet Hallowell

Harriet Hallowell (1873–1943) was an expatriate American player who lived in France for fifty years. She was born in Boston to a Quaker family. During World War I she remained in France and volunteered at a hospital. The hospital was close the home she shared subsequent to her aunt Sarah Tyson Hallowell, located in the village of Moret-sur-Loing, which borders the Forest of Fontainebleau.

Because of her achievement relief efforts upon behalf of the French and Allied soldiers, the French executive awarded her the Légion d'honneur in 1930.

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