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Louise Elisabeth de Meuron, née von Tscharner, is better known in Berne as Madame de Meuron. She was the embodiment of the last remnant of patrician "Old Berne." Born on 22 August 1882, she was the daughter of Ludwig von Tscharner and Anna von Tscharner, née von Wattenwyl. Afther her family opposed her relationship with her Zurich-born fiancé, she married her cousin Alphonse Frédéric de Meuron in 1905. Two children issued from the marriage, which was dissolved in 1923. Apart from her striking, anachronistic style of dress, her eccentric behaviour contributed to her role as one of the city's original characters. To her dying day, in 1980, she refused to buy a tram ticket on the grounds "I bi vorem Tram da gsi" (I was here before the tram).
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