Natalie’s Constellation.
Start with Natalie. Then follow the people whose lives crossed hers, and the lives they led beyond that connection.
Enter the garden. Follow the lives.
This interpretive garden takes inspiration from the Temple of Friendship at 20 rue Jacob. It is a way to navigate historical relationships, not a reconstruction of the garden or a list of its visitors. Select a person to explore documented connections, then follow the evidence to another life.
How are they connected?
Select two historical figures to trace the shortest recorded path through the research network. Evidence strength varies by connection. Each step includes its evidence classification.
Browse the people as a text directory
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
- Adrienne Monnier
- Albert Clifford Barney
- Alexandra Curzon Metcalfe
- Alice B. Toklas
- Alice Pike Barney
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- Alla Nazimova
- Anatole France
- André Gide
- Angelos Sikelianos
- Anna Cabot Mills Lodge
- Anna Karamani Sikelianou
- Anna Pavlova
- Anne Waldman
- Armen Ohanian
- Augustin Duncan
- Caresse Crosby
- Caroline Otero
- Carolus-Duran
- Catherine Amory Bennett Palmer Abbe
- Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk
- Charles W. Eliot
- Christabel Marshall
- Christian Dominique Hemmick
- Clare Atwood
- Colette
- Colin Powys Campbell
- Courtlandt Palmer (1800–1874)
- Courtlandt Palmer (1843–1888)
- Courtlandt Palmer (pianist)
- Cynthia Curzon Mosley
- Denise Thérèse Restout
- Djuna Barnes
- Dolly Wilde
- Dorothy Arzner
- Dorothy Caruso
- Dorothy Strachey Bussy
- Edith Craig
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Edward Gordon Craig
- Eileen Gray
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleni Sikelianos (poet)
- Eleni Sikelianou (performer)
- Eliam Eliakim Barney
- Élisabeth de Gramont
- Ellen Terry
- Émilienne d’Alençon
- Emma Calvé
- Eugene Judson Barney
- Eva Le Gallienne
- Eva Palmer-Sikelianos
- Evelyn Walsh McLean
- Evelyn Wyld
- Eyre de Lanux
- Ezra Pound
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ford Madox Ford
- Frances Lefevre Waldman
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Frederick William Vanderbilt
- G.K. Chesterton
- Gabriele d’Annunzio
- George B. Dorr
- George Dewey
- George Ghika
- George Nathaniel Curzon
- George Washington Vanderbilt II
- Georgette Leblanc
- Georgie Raoul-Duval
- Gertrude Stein
- Glafkos Sikelianos
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Harry Crosby
- Hélène van Zuylen
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Henry Draper
- Henry Gauthier-Villars
- Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk
- Henry Morton Stanley
- Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney
- Hobart Nichols
- Ida Rubinstein
- Irene Curzon, Baroness Ravensdale
- Isadora Duncan
- Jack McLean
- James Henry Moser
- James Joyce
- James McNeill Whistler
- Jane Heap
- Janet Flanner
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean-Jacques Henner
- John D. Rockefeller Jr.
- Joseph Leiter
- Joseph Leiter Jr.
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Josephine Hutchinson
- Juliet Thompson
- Kérimé Turkhan Pasha
- Laura Dreyfus-Barney
- Levi Z. Leiter
- Liane de Pougy
- Loïe Fuller
- Lord Alfred Douglas
- Louis Aragon
- Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
- M. Carey Thomas
- Mabel Dodge Luhan
- Madeleine Vivier-Deslandes [Ilse]
- Marcel Proust
- Margaret Caroline Anderson
- Margaret Webster
- Marguerite Cassini
- Marguerite Hyde Leiter Howard
- Maria “Mimì” Franchetti
- Marian Anderson
- Marianne Jerard
- Marie Laurencin
- Marie Souvestre
- Marie-Louise Damien [Damia]
- Marion Barbara Joe Carstairs
- Marion Morgan
- Mary Anna Palmer Draper
- Mary Cadwalader Jones
- Mary Cassatt
- Mary Elizabeth Garrett
- Mary Livingston King, Marchioness of Anglesey
- Mary Mackall Gwinn
- Mary Maxwell, Rúhíyyih Khánum
- Mary Theresa Carver Leiter
- Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon
- Mary Wallace Shillito
- Mata Hari
- Mathilde de Morny
- Matila Ghyka
- Max Jacob
- May Bolles Maxwell
- May Suydam Palmer
- Menalkas Duncan
- Mercedes de Acosta
- Mina Loy
- Nancy Cunard
- Nancy Lathrop Carver Leiter Campbell
- Natalie Clifford Barney
- Olive Custance
- Oscar Wilde
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul Claudel
- Paul Valéry
- Peggy Guggenheim
- Penelope Sikelianos Duncan
- Philippe Berthelot
- Pierre Louÿs
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Raymond Duncan
- Remy de Gourmont
- Renée Vivien
- Richard Norris Brooke
- Rita de Acosta Lydig
- Robert Abbe
- Romaine Brooks
- Samuel Nathan Pike
- Sappho
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Sherwood Anderson
- Shoghi Effendi
- Sinclair Lewis
- Solita Solano
- Spilios Pasagiannis
- Sylvia Beach
- T.S. Eliot
- Tamara de Lempicka
- Tamara Karsavina
- Thelma Wood
- Thornton Wilder
- Ugo Giachery
- Violet Shillito
- Waddy Butler Wood
- Wanda Landowska
- William Carlos Williams
- William Henry Holmes
- William Howard Taft
- William Somerset Maugham
- William Sutherland Maxwell
- Winnaretta Singer, Princess de Polignac
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