The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Had a splended day here going over Paris with A.D. and now feeding before going on at 10.30. Stayed last night at the Hotel Terminus. I would like you to post me the key of ny kit bag. A.D. sends remembrances. C. P."
The Paris Opera House
Opéra, also known as Palais Garnier, is a Parisian opera house designed by Charles Garnier. The building, considered one of the masterpieces of the Second Empire style, was begun in 1861.
It opened with an orchestral concert on the 5th. January 1875. The first opera performed there was Fromental Halévy’s work La Juive on the 8th. January 1875.
Martin Hans Boyè
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 6th. March 1907 was not a good day for Martin Hans Boyè, because he died at the age of 94 on that day.
Martin was a Danish-American chemist.
-- Martin Hans Boyè - The Early Years
Boyè was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on the 6th. December 1812, son of a chemist in charge of the works of the Royal Porcelain Manufactury.
Martin attended Copenhagen University, and then the Polytechnic School, where he was taught by Johan Georg Forchhammer, graduating with honors in 1835.
At the age of 24, in 1836, Boyè emigrated to New York, and in 1837 moved to Philadelphia, where he became a student of Robert Hare.
-- Martin Hans Boyè's Career
In 1838 Martin was employed as a geologist in the New Jersey geological survey under Henry Darwin Rogers.
In 1839 the Journal of the Franklin Institute published an analysis of a specimen of iron ore from "Iron Mountain", Missouri by Rogers and Boyè.
In 1840, the same journal published a paper by Robert E. and Martin Boyè on the determination of the presence of calcium using sulphuric acid.
That same year, the American Journal of Science contained a note about a new compound of platinum discovered by Rogers and his friend Boyè.
Boyè continued his studies of chemistry in the laboratory of James Curtis Booth. He received an MD degree in 1844 from the University of Pennsylvania, with a graduate thesis on "The Structure of the Nervous System".
He continued to assist Booth until 1845.
In 1847, Boyè invented a method of refining cottonseed oil, and later he entered into large-scale production of this oil for cooking and as an ingredient in toilet soap.
His research included the development of perchloric ether used as a smokeless gunpowder. Other work involved the analysis of feldspar, a treatise on the composition of water in the Schuylkill River, an analysis of concretion from a horse's stomach, analysis of Chinese artificially colored tea, and an investigation of the Aurora Borealis.
Boyè was Chair of Chemistry in Central High, Philadelphia, from 1851 to 1859, when he resigned due to poor health. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Association of Geologists
Tatsumi Naofumi
Tatsumi Naofumi also died on the 6th. March 1907, at the age of 61., in Tokyo.
Baron Tatsumi Naofumi (立見 尚文), who was born on the 21st. August 1845 in Edo, Japan, was a samurai from the Kuwana Domain in the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa shogunate, and later a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Meiji period.
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