M. FRANCOIS COTY
(Received July.27, 8 a.m.)
LONDON, July 26. The' death is announced of M. Francois Coty, perfumo manufacturer and newspaper owner, in Paris.
At eighteen the lato Francois Coty, a Corsican, drifted to Paris, where he became a sort of runner for his friend the senator from Corsica. This not proving sufficiently lucrative, he became a mixer of perfumes. It is said that ho went with a vial of perfumo of his own concoction to one of the big departmental stores of Paris. In tho crowd a woman collided with him and broke the vial. Coty was in despair until the surrounding customers, sniffing a new and delightful fragrance in tho air, began to bombard the clerk with orders; whereupon Coty was given :i special window display and an order for sixty thousand francs' worth of the new perfume. So commenced the building lip of the Coty millions. Since then he had owned a newspaper, and had dabbled in many things, all of which had assisted in building np the fortune he had accumulated at the time of his death. He was 52 years old.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1934, Page 10
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187M. FRANCOIS COTY Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1934, Page 10
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