Searching Mr. Karsh’s records for any day and month, there are almost always at least 30 sittings listed – 32 were photographed on a September 19th. On that day in 1987 Karsh photographed Marguerite Yourcenar. Yourcenar was a French novelist and essayist who was born in Brussels in 1903 (d. 1987). She was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour. Yourcenar was honored with multiple awards and was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980.