However, it is possible that the government will, on the occasion of her burial in Paris Cemetery beside her husband, take advantage of the opportunity The funeral Thursday will be strictly private in accordance with Mme. Jolliot, who with her husband was carrying on the family tradition at the radium institute over which her mother presided, were at the bedside when the end came. Her daughters, Eve, who is a dramatist and pianist of considerable talent,Īnd Mme. Her death came as a surprise to all but her familyĪnd intimate friends, for the rare modesty of her character never deserted her and she did not allow the public to know how ill she was. It was thought at first that she had suffered a lung ailment and for that reason she was sent to the mountains.

Curie went to Sallanches last Friday after having been for five weeks in a Paris clinic. Was caused by a form of pernicious anemia, was hastened by what her physicians termed 'a long accumulation of radiations' which affected the bones and prevented her from reacting normally to the disease. Marie Curie, whose work alone and with her husband on radium and radiology has been one of the greatest glories of modern science, died at 6 o'clock this morning in a sanitarium near Sallanches in Upper Savoy.

Summer sanitarium