Emma Bullet

Emma Bullet
Emma Bullet, from a 1906 publication
Born	1842 Belfort, France
Died	January 31, 1914 Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Journalist, foreign correspondent, canteen worker, educator
Relatives	Henry Edward Krehbiel (brother-in-law)

Emma Bullet (1842 – January 31, 1914) was a French-born American journalist, the Paris correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for 32 years. She also taught school in Ohio, and was a canteen worker during the Franco-Prussian War.

Early life and education

Bullet was born in Belfort, France and moved the United States at age 7. Her mother was a French teacher.[1]

Career

Bullet taught French at the Ohio Female College in Cincinnati and at a school in Paris as a young woman.[1] She and her mother ran a "coffee shack" on Montmartre during the Franco-Prussian War.[2]

From 1879 to 1882 Bullet wrote for the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.[1] In 1882 she became the "graphic, unconventional, breezy" Paris correspondent of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,[3] a role she held for 32 years.[4] She reported on Parisian fashion,[5] and from Queen Victoria's jubilee in London in 1897.[6] She interviewed William Jennings Bryan in 1906.[7] In 1907, the newspaper published her autobiography in serial format,[8] and in 1908 published it as a special pamphlet, in observance of her 30th year as their Paris correspondent,[9] and she was honored at a dinner in Brooklyn by her colleagues at the Eagle.[10] She was a member of the Paris Press Club.[11]

Bullet's home in Paris was described as a weekly "salon" frequented by "the leaders in the world of literature, art, and music in Paris", especially Americans such as sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies and opera singer Emma Nevada.[11] She was "one of the best known and most representative of American women in Paris," according to an 1893 profile.[12]

Publications

• "Emma Bullet's Budget from Paris" (1900)[13]
• "A Letter from Abroad" (1911)[14]

Personal life

Bullet was in the United States for several months in 1908, and stayed with her sister Marie in Maine, New York, and Ohio.[9][15] Her sister was married to music critic Henry Edward Krehbiel.[1][16] She died in 1914, at her home in Paris, in her seventies.[1][17] "She combined an understanding of America and the Americans with a sureness and keenness of perception which made her letters from the French capital authoritative, comprehensive and interesting," commented the Brooklyn Times at the time of her death.[11]

References

1. "Miss Emma Bullet Dies in Paris Home; Was for Thirty-two Years the Eagle's Correspondent". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1914-01-31. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
2. Hickok, Guy (1931-04-15). "Last Commune Shot Aided by American; Heroism of Late Emma Bullet". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 19. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
3. Donohoe, Madge. "The American Woman in Paris II" The Strand 32(190)(November 1906): 380.
4. "Miss Bullet's Anniversary; Sonnet Celebrates her 25 Years of Work as Eagle's Paris Correspondent". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-11-16. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "By the Evening Lamp". The Buffalo Commercial. 1895-05-30. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Bathing in Hyde Park". Brooklyn Life. 1897-07-17. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Mr. Bryan in Paris; Emma Bullet Has an Interesting Talk with the Nebraskan". Record-Journal. 1906-08-30. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Autobiography of Emma Bullet IV". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1907-02-17. p. 23. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Miss Emma Bullet; The Correspondent of the Eagle in Paris, Visiting Friends in Ohio". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-10-27. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "Dinner to Miss Bullet". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-12-10. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Salon Attendants Mourn Miss Bullet". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1914-02-01. p. 9. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
12. Waterbury, Jennie Bullard (1893-05-13). "Miss Emma Bullet". Brooklyn Life. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
13. "Emma Bullet's Budget from Paris". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1900-12-02. p. 27. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
14. Bullet, Emma (1911-10-26). "A Letter from Abroad". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. p. 69. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "Emma Bullet in America". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1908-07-13. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-04-26 – via Newspapers.com.
16. Aldrich, Richard (1923). "Henry Edward Krehbiel". Music & Letters. 4 (3): 266–268. ISSN 0027-4224. JSTOR 726960.
17. "Paris Correspondent Dies; Emma Bullet, Noted Newspaper Woman and War Nurse, Stricken". The Minneapolis Journal. 1914-02-01. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via Newspapers.com.