Trivia
- Marvingt could speak five languages including Esperanto.
- She earned the nickname "la fiancée du danger" (the fiancee of danger).
- In 1922 she bet 10,000 dollars that nobody could better her list of prizes in sport, art, science and travel. She reissued her bet through the newspapers in 1936 and on television in 1948 but there were still no challengers at the time of her death.
- In 1928 Marshal Foch wrote of her, "Prêcher et prêcher l'exemple, quelle éloquence, c'est ce que fait Mlle Marvingt."
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