Şehsuvar Hanım
1881–1945 (age 64)
Biography
Şehsuvar Hanım was an Ottoman woman born in 1881 who lived through the final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Turkish Republic. As a member of the Ottoman elite, she witnessed extraordinary historical transformations.
Şehsuvar Hanım passed away in 1945 and was laid to rest in the Islamic cemetery of Bobigny in Paris. Her burial reflects the presence of Ottoman and Turkish families in France during the twentieth century.