Researching Flora Tristan
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The name Flora means "Form of FLORENCE. blooming" and is of Italian origin.
Records of Flora Tristan on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Flora Tristan and the Tristan Family History
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Flora Tristan. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Flora Tristan
Flora Tristan
Flore Celestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso better known as Flora Tristan (7 April 1803 – 14 November 1844) was a French-Peruvian socialist writer and activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argued that the progress of women's rights was directly related with the progress of the working class. She wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838), Promenades in London (1840), and The Workers' Union (1843).
Tristan was the grandmother of the painter Paul Gauguin.
Source: Flora Tristan, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Tristan
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